A composition photo of images taken during the lunar occultation on Jan. 4 captures the progression of the moon moving in ...

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

Firefly's "Blue Moon" and ispace's "Resilience" are the latest in an ongoing push to gain private-sector experience exploring ...

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 ...

In a monumental step forward for private lunar exploration, SpaceX has successfully launched two groundbreaking moon ...

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 SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is set to launch a pair of lunar landers on a journey to our closest celestial neighbor — kicking ...

The ispace Resilience lander will lift off atop of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space ...

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"The temperature just wildly swings from extremely hot to extremely cold," John Monnier, a professor of astronomy at the ...