Firefly Aerospace’s successful moon lander has yielded a trove of data that scientists will pore over for years.
A private lunar lander has captured the first high-definition sunset pictures from the moon. Firefly Aerospace and NASA ...
While parts of the Earth saw a total lunar eclipse, the Blue Ghost lunar lander captured stunning imagery of a solar eclipse on Friday. See the rare view here.
In his final days aboard the International Space Station (ISS) in a mission that’s lasted six months, American astronaut Don Pettit has posted a sublime shot that wouldn’t look out of place in ...
Artemis II, scheduled for 2026, will be the first crewed mission of the program, orbiting the Earth and Moon with four astronauts. NASA is set to return humans to the moon, and its Artemis program ...
NASA used GPS on the Moon for the first time. Signals from the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) were received and tracked on the Moon. This feat was achieved by NASA and the Italian Space ...
Accurate and reliable navigation will be vital for future astronauts as they travel across the moon, but traditional GPS tools aren’t much good when you’re around 225,000 miles from Earth.
Both Texas businesses are part of NASA’s effort to support commercial deliveries to the moon ahead of astronaut missions later this decade. The moon is littered with wreckage from failed landings over ...
A parade of lunar landers developed by the private-sector have launched this year, part of a convoy of robotic spacecraft that NASA and its partner agencies hope will pave the way for astronauts to ...
China plans to send astronauts to the moon by 2030 and build a research station there with Russia by 2035. Despite NASA’s plans to also launch a crewed mission to the moon, it is concerned that ...
Apollo 16 astronaut and moon walker Charlie Duke left a family photo on the lunar surface in 1972. It’s long gone, but a digital copy is headed back in a data storage payload aboard Intuitive ...
In 1972, Apollo 16 astronaut and moon walker Charlie Duke left a family photo on the lunar surface. Today that photo is long gone. But Duke’s visage is heading back to the moon this week ...