No one has been back to the moon for over 50 years, but the reasons why are multifaceted and not obvious at first glance.
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 technology of bringing humans back from space makes even the best in the business—NASA, Roscosmos and SpaceX—sweat.
While the space race of the 1960s was a contest between two rival superpowers, today it is being fought by private space ...
Firefly's Blue Ghost Mission 1, which lasted about 14 days, or the equivalent of one lunar day, marks the longest commercial ...
Blue Ghost, a Texas-built lunar lander, sent its final message home from the moon’s surface Sunday before powering down and ...
Astronomy contributor and lunar expert Robert Reeves looks back on a Texas-sized achievement in Moon exploration.