The Houston-based company is poised to land its Athena spacecraft on the moon at 12:30 p.m. ET. The landing site closer to the lunar south pole than any human or vehicle has traveled before.

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost probe is expected to land no earlier than Sunday, March 2, 2025 in the wee hours before dawn.

One week ago, a private lunar lander left the ground on a nearly 7-week journey to reach the surface of the moon. The launch may not have had the headline-grabbing power of last year's historic ...

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Moon landings were once exclusive to government agencies, but Firefly Aerospace is now the second company to do it.

“It’s important to recognize that we’re going back to a moon that’s really different than the moon we left when we took off during Apollo,” Zurbuchen said in an interview. “It was a mo ...

A total lunar eclipse on March 13-14, 2025, will be visible across Earth's night side. See detailed maps of where and when to ...

Intuitive Machines launches its second moon lander, which will use NASA and commercially developed tools to search for ice in ...

The Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft, which will launch from Nasa's Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, carries a state-of-the-art ...

Edwards was part of the team that pitched the Lunar Trailblazer Mission to NASA in 2019. The goal was to find projects that ...