The Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost lander touched down on the moon. See footage of the descent and landing here. Credit: ...

Blue Ghost Mission 1, named Ghost Riders in the Sky, is scheduled to launch sometime within a six-day window that begins no ...

Private space company Firefly Aerospace says it will equip the Elytra orbital vehicles with the Ocula telescopes to conduct ...

A private lunar lander from Japan crashed while attempting a touchdown Friday, the latest casualty in the commercial rush to ...

Investigations by the Japanese company ispace identified issues with speed and an altitude sensor that likely doomed the lander ...

While the Outer Space Treaty (OST) provides vital foundations for tackling this global issue, the principles it first laid out in 1967 need to be further refined to produce rules that we can apply in ...

A Japanese lunar lander called Resilience failed to softly touch down on the moon’s surface on June 5. The spacecraft’s status is currently unknown after Tokyo-based company ispace lost communication ...

Despite back-to-back failures, ispace is planning its third moon landing attempt in 2027 with Nasa’s cooperation.

Aside from Texas-based Firefly, only five countries have pulled off a successful lunar landing: the Soviet Union, the U.S., China, India and Japan. And only the U.S. has put astronauts on the moon, ...