The Blue Ghost lunar lander continues to capture beautiful views on its 45-day road trip to the Moon ... They also hope to capture a lunar sunset, recreating what Apollo 17 astronaut Eugene Cernan ...

5. Astrolab’s FLEX Lunar Innovation Platform, or FLIP, rover will be the main payload on Astrobotic’s Griffin-1 lander, slated to land in the Nobile region near the south pole of the moon.

The Blue Ghost Lander represents a significant milestone in private sector participation in space exploration, particularly lunar missions. It will: Investigate heat flow from the lunar interior.

Strange as it may sound, where the astronauts sat (or “sat” – the crew actually stood) in the Apollo Lunar Module may have profoundly impacted the way the experience of walking on the Moon ...

It does, however, pursue its own agenda as well, and back in 2022 Europe decided its time to work on its own (and first) lunar lander. Keeping up with the naming tradition of space missions and ...

Pittsburgh-based company Astrobotic has found a replacement rover to fly on the first-ever mission of its Griffin moon lander. Griffin was originally supposed to deliver NASA's ice-hunting VIPER ...

It could survive for five years on the lunar surface. The European Space Agency (ESA) has signed a contract for a moon lander that's expected to last for years in the harsh environment of the ...

Reaching the moon is no easy feat, with America’s Peregrine lunar lander suffering a catastrophic glitch on its way there in a mission last year, and Japan’s HAKUTO-R Mission 1 failing in the ...

The lander will operate autonomously and deliver infrastructures, scientific instruments, rovers, technology demonstrators and vital resources for astronauts on the lunar surface. Listen to Story ...

China plans to send a flying robot to the far side of the moon next year to search for the frozen water that could hold the ...

The Kremlin on Thursday removed the head of Russia's space agency after a tenure of less than three years that was scarred by the spectacular failure of Russia's first mission to the moon in 47 years.

Team Draper’s lunar lander will aim to land in the Schrödinger Basin in 2026 under NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative, which is part of the Artemis program. The robotic ...