Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 set a new benchmark for commercial lunar exploration, lasting longer than any previous private mission and delivering 10 NASA instruments to the Moon. The mission ...

Firefly Aerospace’s successful moon lander has yielded a trove of data that scientists will pore over for years.

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 ...

The lunar probe BlueGhost made history early this morning, capturing its first solar eclipse from the Moon. The spacecraft observed a stunning phenomenon as the Earth obscured the Sun, creating a ...

The lunar heat-flow study had seemingly ended ... About every 1.5 feet, the drill stops to extend the thermal probe into the ...

The total lunar eclipse on March 13-14 will plunge moon missions into darkness. What will happen to the lunar spacecraft?

The total lunar eclipse on March 13-14 will plunge moon ... During an eclipse, the temperature inside the spacecraft can drop to 23 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 5 degrees Celsius), but for the ...

After a day of uncertainty following a harrowing moon landing attempt, the company Intuitive Machines sealed the fate of its latest lunar probe Athena ... on its side inside a frigid crater.

The next phase of the Commercial Lunar Payload Services ... including inside a permanently shadowed crater that may contain water ice. The Athena probe comes equipped with several instruments ...

WASHINGTON — Intuitive Machines says its second lunar landing mission is over after ... its intended landing site at Mons Mouton and was inside a crater. The low sun angles there making landings ...