The Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost moon lander has begun its work on the moon using its drill, vacuum and electrodes. Blue ...

Half a century after the Apollo astronauts left the last bootprints in lunar dust, the moon has once again become a ...

NASA’s learned a lot about the Moon since Apollo. But a perfect landing still requires incredible planning and scientific ...

The mission consists of the Blue Ghost lunar lander, the Elytra Dark orbital vehicle, and the Lunar Surface Electromagnetic Explorer Night system (LuSEE Night). Elytra Dark will serve as a ...

On Sunday, Firefly Aerospace became the first private entity to achieve complete success with its Blue Ghost lunar lander, on the northeastern edge of the near side of the moon. A vacuum already ...

The infrastructure of humanity's journey into space may only be decades old, but some of it has already been lost. Now, ...

A Japanese commercial spacecraft is zeroing in on its second attempt at a lunar landing, now flying laps around the moon. The ...

We now know why the private Athena lander toppled over on the moon earlier this year. Athena, the second lunar lander built and operated by Houston company Intuitive Machines, fell onto its side ...

The first was interference with the readings from Athena's laser altimeter, the instrument that helped the lander gauge its distance from the lunar surface. "In the final phase of descent ...

"I don't see an inner solar system in which we don't significantly develop the moon if you're going to go anywhere." ...