After achieving a touchdown in early March within the moon's Mare Crisium impact basin, Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander became an on-duty robotic scientist. Kicking up dust and rocks, the ...

At the University of Central Florida’s Exolith Lab, Dr. Phil Metzger and other university researchers have developed a ...

China’s lunar ambitions have evolved from symbolic flag planting to a systematic push for permanent space infrastructure.

Much like the American frontier, whoever can reach the land first can plant their flag—and define what houses on the moon ...

A laser navigating tool doomed a Japanese company’s lunar lander earlier this month, causing it to crash into the moon.

This May 6th, 1968, footage from NASA shows a training vehicle used by Apollo 11 astronauts as they prepared to land the ...

A private lunar lander from Tokyo-based company ispace was aiming for a touchdown in the unexplored far north with a mini ...

The Blue Ghost lunar lander finished surface operations on March 16, 2025, wrapping up a smashing success of a mission. Designed, built, and flown by Firefly Aerospace, based near Austin, Texas ...

The event was a lunar eclipse as seen from Earth, but to Blue Ghost, it appeared more like a solar eclipse because the lander saw the Earth blocking the sun’s light. (We’re going to still call ...

Initially, the Athena lander dropped out of lunar orbit as planned. The hourlong descent appeared to go well until the final approach when the laser navigation system began acting up.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A privately owned lunar lander touched down on the moon with a drill, drone and rovers for NASA and other customers Thursday, but quickly ran into trouble and may have ...

The company’s newest Athena lander dropped out of lunar orbit as planned, carrying an ice drill, a drone and two rovers for NASA and others. The hourlong descent appeared to go well, but it took ...