The shielding technology was tested in vacuum chambers, where it was used to remove lunar dust samples brought home by NASA's Apollo missions. The first time EDS was tested in space was on the ...

The Blue Ghost lunar lander, operated by Firefly Aerospace from Texas, became the first commercial spacecraft to image an ...

The Blue Ghost mission from Firefly Aerospace performed a picture-perfect landing 10 days ago, since when it has been deploying its payloads onto the lunar surface and collecting science data. Blue ...

The moon lander Athena made it to the lunar surface, but its condition and exact location remain unclear, Intuitive Machines and NASA confirmed.

Luna opened its doors last year at ESA’s Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Cologne, Germany. It is the culmination of 10 years of ...

A robotic lander named Athena has made its final descent to the moon’s surface, marking the second lunar touchdown for a US company this week. But the orientation of the lander is currently unknown.

But what did happen to it? Hours after the 15-foot-tall robotic spacecraft arrived at the moon’s surface, closer to the lunar south pole than any spacecraft has been, it remained unclear whether ...

At the end of June 2024, the Chang'e 6 probe returned to Earth with approximately 1,935.3 grams of lunar samples.Preliminary ...

We tend to think of the moon as a cold, dusty rock, but in fact, its surface can get pretty hot during a lunar day. How hot? It turns out that the answer can vary dramatically over a very short ...

The next full moon, the Pink Moon, will illuminate Michigan skies in mid-April 2025, peaking April 12. Here's what to know.

"We don't believe we're in the correct attitude (orientation) on the surface of the moon yet again," Altemus disclosed. "I don't have all the data yet to say exactly what the attitude of the ...