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

"It has been an honor to enable science and technology experiments that support future missions to the moon, Mars and beyond.

It's lights out for the first private lunar lander to pull off a fully successful moon mission. Firefly Aerospace's Blue ...

Welcome to Wallops Island, Virginia. This episode takes you behind the construction of Rocket Lab’s Launch Complex-3 where it's preparing for Neutron rocket to take flight. Firefly’s Blue ...

Firefly Aerospace successfully landed its Blue Ghost lunar lander on the Moon on March 2 at 3:34 a.m. EST. The accomplishment marked Firefly as the first commercial company to achieve a fully ...

IM-2 is scheduled to land on the moon's south pole on March 6, following lessons learned from the IM-1 mission. The Falcon 9 rocket turned twilight into day as it leaped off the launch pad — its ...

The Blue Ghost spacecraft has taken its first images of the lunar surface as Firefly Aerospace and NASA celebrate a ...

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Jan. 15. The mission spent weeks testing the 10 scientific instruments it’s transporting to the moon. The lunar ...

By leveraging the Zeeman effect, EZIE will gather data from an altitude too high for balloons yet too low for satellites to ... The EZIE spacecraft will launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from ...

The Athena moon lander, built by Intuitive Machines, has since detached from the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket it was attached to, and is expected to reach the moon on March 6. While the ten-day IM-2 mission ...