The lander built by Firefly Aerospace has captured incredible views as it orbits Earth. Its next phase is an engine burn that will propel it toward lunar orbit ...

Astrolab’s FLEX Lunar Innovation Platform, or FLIP, rover will be the main payload on Astrobotic’s Griffin-1 lander, slated to land in the Nobile region near the south pole of the moon.

Pittsburgh-based company Astrobotic has found a replacement rover to fly on the first-ever mission of its Griffin moon lander. Griffin was originally supposed to deliver NASA's ice-hunting VIPER ...

The Blue Ghost Lander represents a significant milestone in private sector participation in space exploration, particularly lunar missions. It will: Investigate heat flow from the lunar interior.

It could survive for five years on the lunar surface. The European Space Agency (ESA) has signed a contract for a moon lander that's expected to last for years in the harsh environment of the ...

It does, however, pursue its own agenda as well, and back in 2022 Europe decided its time to work on its own (and first) lunar lander. Keeping up with the naming tradition of space missions and ...

Reaching the moon is no easy feat, with America’s Peregrine lunar lander suffering a catastrophic glitch on its way there in a mission last year, and Japan’s HAKUTO-R Mission 1 failing in the ...

Team Draper’s lunar lander will aim to land in the Schrödinger Basin in 2026 under NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative, which is part of the Artemis program. The robotic ...

Travel and spending during China’s Lunar New Year holiday hit new records this year, giving the government an encouraging boost as it seeks to ramp up the ailing economy. A total of 501 million ...

The flight is described as the company's first Lunar-G flight. "By simulating lunar gravity, customers can accelerate their learning and technology readiness for lunar payloads at a much lower ...

The Blue Ghost lunar lander continues to capture beautiful views on its 45-day road trip to the Moon, most recently an Earth eclipse. After sharing its first views of Earth and the Moon, Blue Ghost ...