No one has been back to the moon for over 50 years, but the reasons why are multifaceted and not obvious at first glance.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A private lunar lander is no longer working after landing sideways in a crater near the moon’s south pole and its mission is over, officials said Friday. The news came less than ...

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

Firefly originally intended to develop a spacecraft based on the design of Israel's Beresheet lander, which was the first ...

Texas-based Firefly Aerospace managed to stay upright when it landed on the moon two weeks ago and announced Monday it had ...

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander fell silent over the weekend, wrapping up two weeks of science experiments for NASA.

After recently landing at the Moon’s Mare Crisium, Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander craft was treated to a spectacle that’s rarely observed: a total solar eclipse as seen from ...

SpaceX launched another batch of Starlink satellites into orbit, a little more than 12 hours after the private company teamed ...

The event marks the first time a commercial company has been able to actively operate on the moon and observe a total solar eclipse.

While Earthlings were watching the moon turn blood red during Friday morning’s lunar eclipse, a robotic lander on the moon ...

An SDC is a nonprofit entity that focuses on infrastructure and development in specialized launch and landing for space ...

The Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform (MAPP) rover aboard the toppled Intuitive Machines Athena lunar lander survived ...