Once it arrived, the lander took plenty of pictures of our nearest celestial neighbor. From here, Blue Ghost will spend the next two weeks in lunar orbit, awaiting its chance to land and start ...

At the Johnson Space Center Tuesday, NASA and Firefly Aerospace held a news conference to discuss the successful Blue Ghost ...

The current plan calls for Resilience to land that day at 3:24 p.m. EST (2024 GMT) near the center of Mare Frigoris ("Sea of ...

Chinese engineers identify a design flaw in NASA's lunar nuclear reactor, suggesting improvements that could boost efficiency ...

Intuitive Machines launches its second moon lander, which will use NASA and commercially developed tools to search for ice in the moon's crust.

Firefly Aerospace's "Blue Ghost" lander dropped out of lunar orbit and swooped to a rocket ... foregoing the need for robot arm-type retrieval systems. A radiation-tolerant computer will be ...

Moon exploration is undergoing a potentially transformative moment. Over the course of six weeks, three different lunar ...

A lunar rover plays a crucial role in exploring the ... Earth's surface by detecting and measuring reflected sunlight or emitted radiation. China's Long March-2D carrier rocket also launched ...

A Colorado-built moon rover set to notch up a number of historic firsts will not be completing its mission near the Lunar South Pole. Lunar Outpost’s Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform (or ...

The radiation-hardened technology will ... The plan is to deploy a lander, a rover, and hopper to explore a site near the lunar south pole that could harbor water ice, and to put a communications ...

The Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform (MAPP) rover aboard the toppled Intuitive Machines Athena lunar lander survived the landing that took out its parent spacecraft and even managed to ...

In February 2024, an American spacecraft landed on the moon for the first time in more than 50 years and ushered in a new era of lunar exploration defined by commercial enterprise. The landing ...