The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, conducted a series of experiments. It drilled three feet into the lunar soil, took X-ray images of the magnetic bubble that surrounds and protects Earth ...

Unlike Apollo—which used a single spacecraft comprising a mothership and lunar lander—Artemis III will see Orion dock with ...

Firefly's Blue Ghost Mission 1, which lasted about 14 days, or the equivalent of one lunar day, marks the longest commercial ...

Astronomy contributor and lunar expert Robert Reeves looks back on a Texas-sized achievement in Moon exploration.

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost commercial lander has gone dark on the moon as planned, but not before sending back ...

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander fell silent over the weekend, wrapping up two weeks of science experiments for NASA.

See detailed maps of where and when to watch the dramatic 'Blood Moon'. The first total lunar eclipse since 2022 is set to grace the night sky tomorrow (March 13-14, 2025) — but only for those ...

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 another a soft landing. The successful soft landing on the moon was ...

the Apollo program ending with the landing of Apollo 17 was largely flawless in planning and execution. NASA mixed science and exploration. The last three landings even had a “moon buggy,” formally ...

Long term, Lunar Outpost was also selected as the primary contractor to build the next-generation moon buggy for astronauts on the Artemis missions.