A private spacecraft on a pretty badass mission has sent back footage of the far side of the Moon, on its way to land in the ...

"trans lunar injection." Then on Thursday, the lander, named Blue Ghost, fired its engines for four minutes to ...

NASA is losing four key senior officials close to its flagship moon program, according to people familiar with the changes, ...

The Blue Ghost spacecraft will attempt a lunar landing on Sunday, March 2 after roughly 45 days orbiting both Earth and the moon itself. The lengthy orbital period will enable mission operators to ...

It is a Japanese-led commercial mission. Astronauts won't be walking on the moon until 2027, but you’ll see a lot of rockets heading there this year, part of an ambitious series of uncrewed ...

The space agency was just $84 million short of completing the mission when it pulled the plug. VIPER had been slated to go to the moon on board an Astrobotic Griffin lander. Then, the space agency ...

Firefly Aerospace It’s been one week since the Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost mission launched on its journey to the moon, carrying NASA payloads and aiming to make the second ever commercial soft ...

Those critics often argue that Elon Musk’s company, SpaceX, would be able to accomplish moon missions at a far cheaper price point with Starship, the most powerful launch system ever constructed ...

In contrast, the Artemis missions are designed to take astronauts to the Moon’s extreme polar regions, where temperatures can reach -369 degrees Fahrenheit (-223 degrees Celsius). Apollo-era ...

Only 12 astronauts have walked on the moon. Discover who they are, which Apollo missions took them there, and when humans will return to the lunar surface. When you purchase through links on our ...

Learning more about the evolution of the lunar surface could have important implications for the logistics of future moon missions. "We hope that future missions to the moon will include tools ...