In 2032, a rare astronomical event may unfold, as asteroid 2024 YR4 could collide with the Moon, resulting in a once-in-5,000 ...

The company held the first test deployment of its solar arrays designed to power solar-electric propulsion systems for the Gateway space station.

In a major achievement for both Firefly Aerospace and the future of lunar exploration, the Blue Ghost lander has officially ...

A moon lander built by Houston-based company Intuitive Machines reached lunar orbit on Wednesday, heading for an attempt at the first U.S. touchdown on Earth's nearest celestial neighbor in more ...

The Odysseus lunar lander fired its main engine for six minutes and 48 seconds Wednesday, putting the spacecraft into a 57-mile-high orbit around the moon and setting the stage for a landing try ...

The SLIM spacecraft — nicknamed the Moon Sniper — is now in lunar orbit ahead of Japan’s planned attempt to land the vehicle on the moon’s surface in mid-January.

The Blue Ghost lunar lander has been sharing dazzling visuals of our celestial neighbor since it successfully entered the moon’s orbit on February 13.. The new footage features a close-up of the ...

Athena entered lunar orbit just a day after fellow Texas company Firefly Aerospace aced its own lunar landing, with the Blue Ghost lander successfully touching down on the moon at Mare Crisium ...

While in lunar orbit, Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander captured an image of the Moon’s south pole on the far left. Firefly Aerospace The hits from Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost mission to the ...

Blue Ghost took a more direct route to the moon, arriving in lunar orbit on Feb. 13 and touching down on Earth's nearest neighbor on March 2.That was a historic moment; Blue Ghost became just the ...

NASA and its contractors envisioned many ways that an Apollo mission might fail, trapping its crew on the moon's barren surface or in lunar orbit, 238,000 miles from home. Beyond Apollo blogger ...

For Bellcomm's third AAP lunar mission, the Augmented LM (ALM) mission, a CSM would orbit the moon for 206 hours (about 8.6 days), during which time two men would separate in an ALM and spend 192 ...