After the space agency canceled its VIPER rover, an empty space was available on a private spacecraft that will still head to ...

The two lunar landers — Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost, and Resilience, built by the Japanese company ispace — lifted off ...

Lunar Trailblazer is part of a growing list of probes and landers heading toward the moon to search for water ice.

Blue Origin's famed New Shepard spacecraft simulated the moon's low gravity on board its capsule during a brief flight ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blared toward space Wednesday ... kicking off what’s expected to be a bustling year of moon missions amid a renewed race to establish a long-term human presence on ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket set for takeoff early Wednesday will launch not one, but two spacecraft on separate missions to the moon. The launch, scheduled for 1:11 a.m. Eastern time at Kennedy Space ...

NASA partners with private companies to search for lunar water ice, a key factor for future human exploration of the moon ...

Original article follows. The Moon is about to get busy. A pair of landers are riding on board a SpaceX rocket this week, aiming to touchdown on the lunar surface and unpack a host of science ...

Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket and spacecraft completed its moon-gravity mission, but the capsule appeared to have a slight ...

Credit: Firefly Aerospace SpaceX plans to launch two private moon landers early Wednesday morning (Jan. 15), and you can watch the action live. SpaceX and NASA will webcast the launch, and Space ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost moon lander, a spacecraft commissioned by NASA, enjoys its SpaceX ride before the rocket releases it into space. Credit: SpaceX / Firefly Aerospace On its 100th ...

The Falcon 9 launched at 1:11 a.m. EST (0611 GMT) beneath a full moon and a clear, starry sky. The rocket's first stage came back to Earth as planned, touching down on SpaceX's "Just Read the ...