On Jan. 4, Saturn briefly hid behind the crescent moon, escaping the view of skywatchers in Europe, Africa, western Russia ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blared toward space Wednesday carrying a pair of lunar landers on a journey to our closest celestial ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

And a large integration hangar was packed with hardware: two lunar landers, two lunar rover mock-ups, a hopper, and other ...

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

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 ...

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