An illustration of a private U.S. lander on the surface of the moon built by Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace. The ...

The mission, named Ghost Riders in the Sky, launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, at 1:11 a.m. ET. Blue Ghost ...

A new year of lunar exploration kicked off early Wednesday, when two robotic landers and a small rover began their journeys ...

The past few years have marked the advent of a new lunar space race ... The mission will send a robotic lander to test Blue Moon’s design and engine capabilities, aiming to ensure a smooth ...

Among all the challenges of voyaging to and successfully landing on other worlds, the effective collection and study of soil ...

Lunar Lander plummeted towards the Moon and crashed on its surface. Hakuto-R M1 was carrying both commercial and government-owned payloads, including a tiny, two-wheeled transformable robot from ...

but also the Resilience lander from the Japanese robotic spacecraft firm iSpace. It will take 45 days for the craft to journey to the Moon before it spends another 14 days carrying out surface ...

Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander is flying annual missions to the Moon with payload services customized to the technology ...

Firefly's Blue Ghost lunar lander has launched from Kennedy Space Center Pad 39A, and is on a 45-day journey to the moon for ...

A set of cameras on the lander will capture the moment the robotic mission touches down to help engineers understand the lunar dust plume created. Some of the payloads on Blue Ghost will use X-ray ...