ESA has just signed a landmark contract with Italy’s Thales Alenia Space to build this lander dubbed Argonaut Lunar Descent Element.

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

Still circling Earth, Firefly Aerospace’s lunar lander fired its thrusters Thursday to put it on a path to reach the moon in over a month. Dubbed Blue Ghost, the spacecraft beamed back photos ...

Blue Ghost is Firefly's first-ever moon lander. It launched on Jan. 15 atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which also carried a second private lunar lander — Resilience, which was built by the ...

(Reuters) -Thales Alenia Space has won an 862 million euro ($897 million) order from the European Space Agency (ESA) to deliver a lunar lander for moon exploration launches to begin in the 2030s ...

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 ...

A private U.S. spacecraft bound for the moon has captured stunning images of Earth one week into its flight.Still circling Earth, Firefly Aerospace’s lunar lander fired its thrusters Thursday to ...