How Did the Spacecraft Get to the Moon? Astronauts got to the moon by traveling on a giant rocket (Saturn V) that launched ...

Firefly’s Blue Ghost marks a new era in commercial space, proving private industry’s role in space exploration and ...

The past couple of weeks has offered us vivid examples in the news of two events, one of which I call a hard landing and ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A private lunar lander carrying a drill, vacuum and other experiments for NASA touched down on the ...

“Earthrise” begins with a quotation from William Anders, who, as a member of the first crew to circle the moon, took the ...

The Blue Ghost lunar lander has been sharing dazzling visuals of our celestial neighbor since it successfully entered the moon’s orbit on February ... by the last Apollo astronaut on the Moon.” ...

Intuitive Machines' Athena could be the second U.S. spacecraft to land on the moon in a week after Firefly Aerospace's Blue ...

All asteroids orbit the sun, and some have orbital paths that cross Earth’s. That’s the case with 2024 YR4, one of about 20,000 Apollo-type asteroids that orbit the sun from about the same ...

It’s not quite William Anders’ “Earthrise” picture, but does show the level of quality on the X-37B’s cameras, as well as a sense of just how far in orbit it is. The exact date and ...

Intuitive Machines shared the photos within about 13 hours of the spacecraft launching to orbit aboard a SpaceX ... the site of the space agency's Apollo moon mission launches.