Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander is now headed for the moon after firing its engines to send it out of Earth orbit ...

NASA’s Blue Ghost mission will deploy ten advanced scientific instruments to the Moon, testing technologies for regolith ...

The Space Coast set a new record in 2024 with 93 launches from all providers, building off the 72 orbital missions flown in 2023. With SpaceX’s continued pace, more launches from United Launch ...

For the first time, Blue Origin put its New Shepard suborbital rocket ship through a couple of minutes' worth of moon-level ...

More than 3 billion years ago, when the Moon’s volcanic mare (the dark lunar “seas”) were formed, the Moon was rife with ...

Astrobotic's first try at a moon landing ended in disappointment ... t digging up our backyard and polluting our own delicate blue planet, but instead taking resources from space — lifeless ...

Several missions under contracts with NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program are planned for this year.

Blue Origin's famed New Shepard spacecraft simulated the moon's low gravity on board its capsule during a brief flight ...

In a first, the Jeff Bezos-led spaceflight company simulated lunar gravity on a suborbital rocket to test various science ...

Though 2025 won't mark the return of astronauts into deep space as NASA had hoped, launchpads still will be scorching-hot ...

Prior to descent onto the surface, the uncrewed spacecraft, the Blue Ghost lander, will spend 16 days in orbit around the moon. Landing on the moon remains onerous. The moon's exosphere provides ...

The experiments launched abroad Blue Origin's New Shepard were mainly sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The tests included ways to keep lunar dust off of ...