Firefly Aerospace on Monday announced the conclusion of its Blue Ghost lunar lander mission, declaring it the first “fully ...

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 lunar lander snapped incredible photographs of the March 13–14 total lunar eclipse, ...

In 1966, Gemini XII astronauts for the first time photographed a solar eclipse from Earth's orbit as they flew over the ...

New research from scientists with the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences and published in the journal Science found that ...

A startup company wants to establish mining operations on the moon to extract a rare isotope needed for future quantum ...

China’s Chang’e 6 mission uncovers evidence of a molten lunar magma ocean and a violent ancient impact.

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

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

The Chang'e 6 mission launched in early May 2024, landed in the vast South Pole-Aitken (SPA), and returned to Earth with 4 ... collected by NASA's Apollo missions to the moon's near side.

Then in 1969, the Apollo 12 astronauts returning from the moon experienced a solar eclipse as they passed through Earth's shadow and the planet blocked the sun from their spacecraft. From their ...

Sonoma’s Rusty Schweickart appears in “Apollo 1,” a new documentary film about the mission, and will participate in a panel ...