NASA's NIAC program is investing in visionary ideas that could revolutionize space exploration. From fusion-powered ...

Firefly's Blue Ghost Mission 1 has taken a significant leap toward the Moon, with its successful second engine burn ...

They suggest using several robotic rovers, including a multilimbed one designed on NASA's Athlete prototype and a more traditional lunar rover based around the current Lunar Terrain Vehicle ...

Blue Ghost and Resilience both have long journeys ahead of them. Two newly launched private moon landers have long roads ahead of them. Early on Tuesday morning (Jan. 15), a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket ...

For the past week, an uncrewed lunar lander has been journeying through outer space on a 60-day mission to the moon on behalf ...

a lunar lander and rover developed by the Japanese company ispace, whose first landing attempt in April 2023 failed just kilometers above the moon’s surface. At NASA’s request, Blue Ghost ...

There are 10 payloads from NASA-funded customers aboard the lander that will carry out a variety of environmental tests to study things like lunar dust, electric and magnetic ... and a camera-equipped ...

As part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload (CLPS) initiative, the mission will use Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander, Elytra Dark orbital vehicle and a rover from an industry provider to investigate ...

CORRECTION: The Resilience lander and Tenacious rover ... t just NASA missions that are getting us back to the moon. Get comfortable with the acronym CLPS, which stands for Commercial Lunar ...

More than 50 years later, on the cusp of NASA's crewed Artemis missions to the moon, lunar research still leverages data from those Apollo-era retroreflectors. As NASA prepares for the science and ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — A SpaceX mission lifted off early Wednesday marking a first for Firefly Aerospace under NASA’s ... the lunar lander Resilience with a rover named Tenacious for Japanese ...

But last week's launch marked a crucial step to pave the way for NASA to send astronauts back to the moon in the years ahead under its Artemis campaign – its first lunar program since the Apollo ...