Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander marks the first fully successful commercial moon mission, achieving all objectives and ...

Array would leverage robotic and crewed lunar missions and China-led International Lunar Research Station set to take shape ...

“I will hold vigil on this spot in Mare Crisium to watch humanity’s continued journey to the stars ... region of the moon, which is riddled with impact craters and other hazards.

That lander is targeting an early June touchdown. Another Texas company, Intuitive Machines, ended up sideways in a crater near the Moon’s south pole earlier this month, dooming the mission.

For example, look for a lunar limb or a bright lunar feature, such as a crater of a lunar ... red tones of light from the moon and, if necessary, deploy a star tracker to utilize longer exposures ...

Scientists have long sought to determine the age of the moon's South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin, the largest and oldest known ...

Out past Neptune are countless small icy and rocky bodies called Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), and many of these have moons ...

As Firefly Aerospace prepared to close out a two-week mission on the moon, its lander had one final gift to beam home: the first high-definition images of a lunar sunset.

The spacecraft carried out the longest commercial operation on the moon to date—and also made history during its rare chance ...

A team of geologists at the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, the Institute of Space Sciences and the Shandong ...