While Resilience and Blue Ghost are in orbit and preparing to leave for the moon, another lunar lander — Intuitive Machines ' IM-2, or Athena — recently arrived at Cape Canaveral to loaded atop of a ...

Thales Alenia Space has won an 862 million euro ($897 million) order from the European Space Agency (ESA) to deliver a lunar lander for moon exploration launches to begin in the 2030s, the firm said ...

The RPS uses two Stirling engines to convert the heat generated by the decay of Plutonium-238 (Pu-238) into electricity.

Russia's first lunar lander mission in 47 years ended in failure when Luna-25 crashed into the moon. Credit: Space.com | footage and animation courtesy: Roscosmos | edited by Steve Spaleta ...

On Monday (Jan. 27), Texas-based Firefly released two photos of the moon that Blue Ghost captured from Earth orbit. One shows ...

For the past week, an uncrewed lunar lander has been journeying through outer space on a 60-day mission to the moon on behalf ...

In a significant leap for lunar exploration, Firefly Aerospace's recent mission launched 10 NASA instruments towards the Moon ...

Blue Ghost's main mission will be research. It will hang out in Earth's orbit for 25 days taking measurements and waiting for ...

Lunar New Year — also commonly called Chinese New Year — marks the start of the new year based on lunar calendars, or monthly cycles of the moon's phases. The lunar new year starts with the ...

"The mission is now in the hands of the unstoppable Firefly team." This is the first lunar lander built by Firefly, which got its start in the rocket business. Firefly launches its own small-class ...

It's take 2 for the Tokyo-based ispace, whose first lander crashed into the moon two years ago. This time, it has a rover on board with a scoop to gather up lunar dirt for study and plans to test ...

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- A suite of NASA scientific investigations and technology demonstrations is on the way to the moon aboard a commercial lunar lander launched earlier Wednesday. The ...