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

NASA websites have dropped references to landing the first woman on the moon as part of the goals for its Artemis program.

Flying above the far side of the moon in a circular 62-mile-high orbit, the squat lander fired its main engine at 2:31 a.m. EST, kicking off a white-knuckle 63-minute descent to the landing site ...

Blue Ghost aced its touchdown try early this morning (March 2), becoming just the second private spacecraft ever to soft-land on the moon. The lander hauled 10 science experiments to the lunar surface ...

The mission, aptly named “Ghost Riders in the Sky,” touched down in Mare Crisium, a large impact site filled with basaltic lava on the Moon. Blue Ghost pulled off a precision landing, touching down ...

Firefly Aerospace on Monday announced the conclusion of its Blue Ghost lunar lander mission, declaring it the first “fully ...

Images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which will pass over the landing site, could pinpoint Athena’s precise location. It has been a busy week in spaceflight and on the moon.

Athena landed on Thursday on a flat-topped mountain named Mons Mouton, about 100 miles from the moon’s south pole. It was the southernmost landing site of any spacecraft. We are having trouble ...

An uncrewed spacecraft developed in the United States has successfully soft-landed on the moon, making Texas-based ... beginning at Blue Ghost’s landing site. “That’s when the sun rises ...