More than 50 years after Apollo 8’s legendary Earthrise photo, a new image from the Moon’s surface delivers a hauntingly ...

Once it arrived, the lander took plenty of pictures of our nearest celestial neighbor. From here, Blue Ghost will spend the next two weeks in lunar orbit, awaiting its chance to land and start ...

With just over two weeks left in Earth orbit before our Trans Lunar Injection, the Firefly team will continue operating our NASA payloads onboard and capturing science data along the way.” ...

The spacecraft will separate from the rocket after reaching what’s called a trans-lunar injection orbit, which is an elliptical path that extends about 236,000 miles (380,000 kilometers ...

A private spacecraft carrying NASA instruments to the surface of the moon in preparation for astronauts to return in the years ahead has reached lunar orbit about a month into its spaceflight.

"Ideally, NASA should be able to buy heavy lift services to send payloads to the Moon—up to about 45 metric tons to 'trans-lunar injection' which is about the same performance as the SLS Block 2 ...

The milestone came five days after the Blue Ghost completed a maneuver, the trans lunar injection, meant to allow it to escape Earth's gravitational pull and send it on a short transit to the moon ...