Blue Ghost will spend the next 16 days in lunar orbit, if all goes to plan. It will conduct additional engine burns to circularize its path around Earth's nearest neighbor, then attempt a landing in ...

The Blue Ghost mission launched on Wednesday, January 15, on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and is currently around halfway ...

Firefly Aerospace 's moon-bound spacecraft has provided the closest thing to a reflecting pool in space, showing Earth as an ...

What are the best space games on PC in 2025? Featuring the biggest Steam games, like Kerbal Space Program, and the best ... takes place on the surface of the moon, with a moonbase as a backdrop.

As far as space events go, February offers a glimpse of Venus at its brightest point of the year, a seven-planet alignment and the snow moon. The Alpha Centaurids meteor shower will happen this ...

A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely referred to as a "mini-moon." Turns out the lunar-inspired moniker may have been more accurate than we realized.

During the US Apollo program, six crewed missions landed on the Moon starting with Apollo ... Crater was one of the candidate landing sites for NASA's now canceled VIPER rover. While the merits of ...

One week ago, a private lunar lander left the ground on a nearly 7-week journey to reach the surface of the moon ... program since the Apollo missions came to an end in 1972. The previous landing ...

The $93.3 million mission comes as NASA plans to send humans back to the moon within this decade for the first time since the space agency's Apollo program came to an end more than 50 years ago.

In the Space Coast's eighth launch of 2025 thus far ... Following stage separation, the booster settled for a landing on the SpaceX drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas in the Atlantic Ocean ...

On January 15, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, propelling Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander and ispace’s Resilience lander towards the Moon.

Space development is shifting from being state-led to being led by the private sector. Japanese companies should not miss out on the global trend and should pioneer new areas. The Resilience, a lunar ...