After the space agency canceled its VIPER rover, an empty space was available on a private spacecraft that will still head to ...

Blue Ghost's final descent to the Moon is tentatively scheduled for March 2. The target landing site is in Mare Crisium, an ...

NASA launched Blue Ghost with a motive to study the moons atmosphere. It is expected to orbit the Earth and moon for 45 days.

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

Why being first to return to the moon matters.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida — Get ready ... is Firefly's first mission to the moon and is part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program. The lander is carrying 10 NASA research ...

“A lander ... on the moon,” says lunar scientist Ryan Watkins, a program scientist at NASA’s Exploration Science Strategy and Integration Office. “To finally have a chance to get on ...

bearing the optimistic motto “Never Quit the Lunar Quest." To save energy, the mission will take a different, slower path than Blue Ghost 1 — the Resilience lander will essentially fly past the moon ...

CORRECTION: The Resilience lander and Tenacious ... that are getting us back to the moon. Get comfortable with the acronym CLPS, which stands for Commercial Lunar Payload Services.

NASA’s upcoming Artemis II mission is slated to return astronauts to the Moon no sooner than April ... will be mounted on a lunar lander. It’s scheduled for launch in January 2025.

What’s particularly exciting for Northern Ireland is that the propulsion module for the lander will be built, tested, and ...