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

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander was launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 and deployed for a 45-day trip to the moon on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025. (NASA) “I had the urge to say ...

Artemis is NASA's program to return humans to the moon and eventually Mars, but it will need plenty of robotic missions to support it. The first CLPS mission never made it to the moon. That came ...

For the third time in a year, a commercial lunar lander backed by NASA is on its way to the moon's surface. The spacecraft built and operated by Texas-based Firefly Aerospace launched in the early ...

NASA added in many lunar and lunisolar calendars the months change with the new moon and full moons come in the middle of the lunar month. The New Moon, which comes on Jan. 29, will be the Chinese ...

A Cedar Park-based aerospace company designed the lunar lander that successfully launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket early Wednesday, with the aim of landing on the moon in March. Firefly ...

Congress is none too pleased after SpaceX CEO and unelected official Elon Musk declared that the "Moon is a distraction" and that NASA should instead be going "straight to Mars." Mark Kelly ...

Firefly’s lander, though, is scheduled to arrive months before the ispace lander, and build on the momentum seen in 2024 by fellow Texas company Intuitive Machines, whose commercial lander also flying ...

“We’re going to be able to capture that in 4K-by-4K high-definition ... Ispace intends to transfer ownership to NASA — but the sample itself will remain on the moon, according to Nozaki.

We'll see only half of the half of the moon (a quarter) that will be illuminated in this phase. According to NASA, the last quarter moon usually rises around midnight and sets around noon ...