The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, conducted a series of experiments. It drilled three feet into the lunar soil, took X-ray images of the magnetic bubble that surrounds and protects Earth ...

Unlike Apollo—which used a single spacecraft comprising a mothership and lunar lander—Artemis III will see Orion dock with ...

Astronomy contributor and lunar expert Robert Reeves looks back on a Texas-sized achievement in Moon exploration.

Nine months is a long time to be in orbit. But Butch Williams and Suni Wilmore aren't alone in facing extraordinary ...

A private lunar lander has captured the first high-definition sunset pictures from the moon. Firefly Aerospace and NASA ...

Firefly originally intended to develop a spacecraft based on the design of Israel's Beresheet lander, which was the first ...

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander marks the first fully successful commercial moon mission, achieving all objectives and ...

A startup company wants to establish mining operations on the moon to extract a rare isotope needed for future quantum ...

Its first lander put the U.S. back on the moon last year for the first time since the Apollo era after a less-than-perfect ...

Firefly Aerospace shared a final message from Blue Ghost as the lander's lunar mission came to a close on Sunday.

The second attempt by Intuitive Machines to land on the moon and the eighth test of the SpaceX Starship, proved an old adage: ...