If all goes to plan, the rover will be transporting Japanese and American occupants over the Moon’s surface by 2031. Previously, the American Apollo program ... with 16 hours of down time ...

FILE - This May 18, 1969 photo provided by NASA shows Earth from 36,000 nautical miles away as photographed from the Apollo 10 spacecraft during its trans-lunar journey toward the moon.

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander captured high-definition images of the lunar sunset March 16, as lunar night would ...

Astronomy contributor and lunar expert Robert Reeves looks back on a Texas-sized achievement in Moon exploration.

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost commercial lander has gone dark on the moon as planned, but not before sending back ...

The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, conducted a series of experiments. It drilled three feet into the lunar soil, took X-ray images of the magnetic bubble that surrounds and protects Earth ...

New research from scientists with the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences and published in the journal Science found that sample analysis backs up an established model of the moon as a global ...

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

Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 set a new benchmark for commercial lunar exploration, lasting longer than any previous private mission and delivering 10 NASA instruments to the Moon. The mission ...

See what moon phase it is tonight and find out when you can see the rest of the moon phases for 2025. Today, March 23, 2025, the moon is 23 days old and is in the Waning Crescent phase of its ...