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

While Resilience and Blue Ghost are in orbit and preparing to leave for the moon, another lunar lander — Intuitive Machines ' IM-2, or Athena — recently arrived at Cape Canaveral to loaded atop of a ...

Two newly launched private moon landers have long roads ahead of them. Early on Tuesday morning (Jan. 15), a SpaceX Falcon ... energy-efficient path to lunar orbit; it's expected to reach that ...

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 ...

With the nearly full moon shining overhead, two companies, one American and the other headquartered in Japan, launched privately developed robotic lunar landers early Wednesday, sharing a sky-lighting ...

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

Image: SpaceX Update: Wednesday, January 15, 9:10 a.m. ET: SpaceX’s Falcon ... Moon. After operating in an elliptical transfer orbit, the lander will conduct a lunar flyby, shifting into a low ...

Lonestar Data Holdings is planning to make history by building the first data center on the moon. The company announced on January 21 that it will launch the fully assembled data center next month ...

“Each flight we’re part of is vital step in the larger blueprint to establish a responsible, sustained human presence at the Moon, Mars and beyond." Launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket ...