Simultaneous launches signal growing private interest in lunar exploration, traditionally dominated by governments.

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

The Moonhouse, the size of a big hand, was ready to hitch a ride to the moon on a lunar lander operated by the Japanese company ispace. It was set for transport on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket that ...

The mission featured two robotic lunar landers: one from Texas-based Firefly Aerospace and another from the Japanese space ...

Two new moon dwellers are on their way: on January 15, a Falcon 9 launch vehicle from SpaceX took off with two lunar landers from private companies in Japan and the USA on board. The US space ...

Liftoff is scheduled for 8:34 p.m. ET tonight (Jan. 29).

The Falcon 9 launched at 1:11 a.m. EST (0611 GMT) beneath a full moon and a clear, starry sky. The rocket's first stage came back to Earth as planned, touching down on SpaceX's "Just Read the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (KTRK) -- Frank Sinatra once crooned, "Fly me to the moon. Let me play among the stars," and for two companies, SpaceX granted that wish. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket set for takeoff early Wednesday will launch not one, but two spacecraft on separate missions to the moon. The launch, scheduled for 1:11 a.m. Eastern time at Kennedy Space ...

Image: SpaceX Update: Wednesday, January 15, 9:10 a.m. ET: SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket ... Original article follows. The Moon is about to get busy. A pair of landers are riding on board a ...

(CNN) — A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is set to launch ... “The Moonhouse, the first house on the moon, could be an expression of humanity’s ability to achieve the seemingly unattainable through ...

STOCKHOLM — A Swedish artist is about to have the dream of a lifetime fulfilled: A little red model house he created was launched into space this week and, if all goes according to plan, put on the ...