Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost commercial lander has gone dark on the moon as planned, but not before sending back ...

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

The Startup Pulsar Fusion is proposing a 2 Megawatt nuclear fusion orbital components for 2027. Pulsar has now proceeded to ...

ISRO plans to launch five modules for Chandrayaan-4, which will need to be docked and undocked in Earth’s elliptical orbit, and lunar orbit to bring lunar samples ...

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

Blue Ghost conducted the DOI on the far side of the Moon, which caused a communications blackout with Earth. The spacecraft ...

Building such facilities off Earth could have a lot of benefits. Early projects are underway.

open image in gallery Lunar Planet Vac instrument, or LPV, designed to collect and transfer lunar soil from the surface to other science and analysis instruments (Firefly via Nasa) The lander has ...

The Athena lander fired its engines for eight minutes and 12 seconds on Monday (March 3), slowing the spacecraft down and entering lunar orbit. Athena is now all set to make a landing attempt ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander descended from lunar orbit on autopilot on Sunday, aiming for the slopes of an ancient volcanic dome in an impact basin on the Moon's north-eastern edge of ...

A separate spacecraft for that mission, called Elytra, will be put in orbit around the moon to serve as a communications ... then will be funneled into a transfer tube via the payload’s ...

And the US company Astrobotic had to completely forgo its landing attempt last January after a valve failure caused a propellant leak in orbit. An elite few have landed softly on the moon ...