The spacecraft built and operated by Texas-based Firefly Aerospace launched in the early Monday hours from Florida aboard a ...

NASA partners with private companies to search for lunar water ice, a key factor for future human exploration of the moon ...

One week ago, a private lunar ... 3 billion years ago. Firefly's team plans to operate the 10 NASA instruments for a complete lunar day, equivalent to about 14 Earth days. The instruments the ...

Two commercial lunar landers are currently on their way to the Moon, and at least two more are set to follow this year under NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative. Meanwhile, ...

The ESA is planning regular missions to the moon. The Argonaut landing vehicle is to take supplies and scientific equipment there.

The lunar lander during the Apollo missions stood 22 feet (7 meters) tall with its landing legs deployed. The next time astronauts land on the moon will be during NASA’s Artemis 3 mission.

At 1:11 A.M. EST on January 15 Blue Ghost, a lunar lander ... tall and 3.5 meters wide—roughly the size of two Volkswagen Beetles parked side by side—Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander is designed ...

Firefly is making its first attempt to put a vehicle on the moon, but this mission marks a second try for Ispace, after its first lander ... robotic lunar mission, called IM-3, as soon as October.

For the third time in a year, a commercial lunar lander backed by NASA is on its way ... moon's environment before humans return. The $93.3 million mission comes as NASA plans to send humans ...