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 ...

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.

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 ...

The new gravity sensors from Fleet Space will revolutionize subsurface exploration on the Moon and Mars, optimizing landing ...

Partners use Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket to test out technologies bound for the moon—without actually sending them there ...

"At least one of those astronauts will make history as the first woman on the Moon. Another goal of the Artemis program includes landing the first person of color on the lunar surface." In 2023 ...

What is the moon phase today? Today, Feb. 11, 2025, the moon is 13 days old, and approaching the Full Moon phase of its lunar cycle. It is 98% illuminated. Moon phases reveal the passage of time ...

Artemis 3, planned as the first astronaut moon landing under the program, is now planned for September 2026, delayed from late 2025. Sign up here. Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis said on ...