The achievement makes Firefly only the second commercial company to successfully land a spacecraft on the moon — and the ...

Two advanced US spacecraft take off from Florida, heading for the Moon's south pole to detect water and enhance important ...

SpaceX Falcon 9 launched Athena and Lunar Trailblazer to advance lunar water ice exploration and future missions.

Japanese startup ispace on Tuesday set a June 6 target touchdown date for its Moon lander, following the success of its ...

March 4 (UPI) -- Japanese lunar exploration company ispace announced Tuesday it will aim to place a lander on the moon on ...

Blue Ghost is now sitting on Mare Crisium, a plain made from an ancient hardened lava flow. It's next to a volcanic feature, ...

Firefly’s lunar landing is NASA’s second CLPS mission. The first took place last year, when Intuitive Machines—another Texas-based private space company—sent its lander to the Moon in February 2024.

Over the weekend, a Texas aerospace company made the first fully successful landing on the moon by a private firm. Mark ...

The successful landing of a Cedar Park lunar lander is putting the pressure on efforts to build a workforce capable of reaching for the stars.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A private lunar lander carrying a drill, vacuum and other experiments for NASA touched down on the ...

Japanese moon exploration company ispace said its Resilience lander will attempt a lunar touchdown at 4:24 a.m. on June 6 local time (1924 GMT on June 5) at the earliest, in its second attempt after ...

For the first time ever, a private company has successfully put a lunar lander on the moon. It happened in the pre-dawn hours ...