Firefly Aerospace succeeded in its first attempt to land on the moon with its uncrewed Blue Ghost spacecraft on Sunday, kicking off a two-week research mission as a handful of private firms compete to ...

Welcome to this day in history, March 13th.First and foremost, one of the most impactful global events occurred on March 13, 1969, when the United States, ...

Here’s a look at NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), the United States government agency that conducts research into space. There are 10 major NASA facilities, including the Kennedy ...

1916: Mexican General Francisco “Pancho” Villa invades US. On the same day, Germany declares war on Portugal. 1918: The Russian Bolshevik Party becomes the Communist Party. 1930: Birth of jazz ...

For the second time in two years, a commercial lunar lander built and operated by Intuitive Machines has fallen over on the ...

"The successful SCALPSS operation is a key step in gathering fundamental knowledge about landing and operating on the moon, ...

The privately-owned lander turned its cameras toward Earth as our planet cast its shadow over the moon. It’s not the first spacecraft to do so.

WASHINGTON – A private company’s second attempt to land on the Moon officially ended on March 7 after its Athena spaceship came down sideways in a repeat of a 2024 off-kilter landing.

a fate that befell two other spacecraft that made it to the Moon's surface without crashing last year. And even-even better? We have some absolutely magnificent footage of the landing as it took ...

This week, follow the journeys of two lunar landers, meet “woolly mice,” see the oldest known bone tools, and more.

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost has landed, activating NASA’s cutting-edge instruments. These include a dust-clearing system, a revolutionary navigation experiment, and cameras studying lunar touchdown ...