One week ago, a private lunar lander left the ground on a nearly 7-week journey to reach the surface of the moon. The launch may not have had the headline-grabbing power of last year's historic ...

Turns out that’s what happened on April 26th, as the Japanese Hakuto-R Lunar lander made its mark on the Moon…by crashing into it. [Scott Manley] dove in to try and understand the software bug ...

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 ...

"The mission is now in the hands of the unstoppable Firefly team." This is the first lunar lander built by Firefly, which got its start in the rocket business. Firefly launches its own small-class ...

The lander is packed with 10 scientific instruments to study the lunar surface and gather data to support future human missions to the Moon as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services ...

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 ...

A commercial lunar lander will soon be heading to the moon with a fleet of scientific instruments on board for a $93.3 million NASA mission to study the moon's environment before humans return.

If you’d like to see what goes into making a 1/3-scale Apollo 11 Lunar Module ... an old frying pan as a concrete mold to create the lander’s “feet”. Later, a little paint makes the ...

A British writer who specializes in indie gaming. However, unlike Sub-Terrania–and maybe the original arcade game in its heyday–Lunar Lander Beyond lacks a certain spark. It’s fun ...

The space agency and contractors SpaceX and Firefly Aerospace are targeting Wednesday at 1:11 a.m. EST for Blue Ghost Mission 1—the maiden lunar voyage of Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander.

It’s take 2 for the Tokyo-based ispace, whose first lander crashed into the moon two years ago. This time, it has a rover on board with a scoop to gather up lunar dirt for study and plans to ...