The Blue Ghost mission to the moon has deployed one its NASA instruments, drilling into the moon's surface to collect ...

Longest commercial Moon mission using Firefly’s composites-intensive Blue Ghost lander completes more than 346 hours of ...

Scientists found that some slopes on the Moon stay cold enough to hold ice. This could expand water sources for future space ...

Earth and sun caused the moon to appear with a striking red glow. But from the lunar surface, the effect would have been reminiscent of the total solar eclipse many Americans witnessed in April 2024.

The six-legged Athena spacecraft is now "on her side" atop the moon's surface, subsequently ending a week-long mission. The company said it received images transported from Athena on the lunar ...

The Houston-based company is poised to land its Athena spacecraft on the moon at 12:30 p.m. ET. The landing site closer to the lunar south pole than any human or vehicle has traveled before.

The Athena lander also made it to the moon, after descending near the lunar ... making it the “southernmost lunar landing and surface operations ever achieved,” according to the company.

Lunar eclipses occur when Earth moves between the sun and the moon, casting a shadow across the lunar surface. Lunar eclipses can only take place during a full moon and are a popular event for ...

Any sunlight that's not blocked by the Earth during the eclipse will be filtered through a "thick slice of Earth's atmosphere" as it heads toward the moon's surface, according to NASA. This will ...

They reflect on the moon's surface and create the colorful phenomenon. The next total lunar eclipse will take place on Sept. 7 and 8, according to timeanddate.com. The totality of that eclipse won ...

Lunar eclipses can only happen during a full moon, when the sun fully illuminates the surface. Usually, a full moon has no eclipse because the moon orbits in a slightly different plane than the ...