Firefly's "Blue Moon" and ispace's "Resilience" are the latest in an ongoing push to gain private-sector experience exploring ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost moon lander has snapped its first photos of its distant target.On Monday (Jan. 27), ...

By Joey Roulette and Kantaro Komiya ORLANDO, Florida/TOKYO (Reuters) -Two moon landers, one from Japan's ispace and another ...

A private U.S. spacecraft has captured stunning images of Earth one week into its flight. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A private ...

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

Blue Ghost's final descent to the Moon is tentatively scheduled for March 2. The target landing site is in Mare Crisium, an ...

The two landers rocketed away in the middle of the night from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, the latest in a stream of private ...

A tiny red Swedish-style cottage is set to become the Moon’s first "building," part of an ambitious art project now en route ...

Built by Firefly Aerospace and Ispace, the pair of spacecraft will land separately in the moon's northern latitudes, conduct ...

The two missions are part of a commercial push to explore the Moon, marking the start of a new era for private spaceflight. Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander and ispace’s Resilience lander ...

SpaceX has sent Japanese and U.S. lunar landers on separate missions in a major step in the race to commercialize the Moon.

Unlike Blue Ghost, ispace's Resilience, also known as Hakuto-R, will head for the moon about two days after launch, using a low-energy fuel-saving trajectory. One month later, the craft will fly ...