ESA has just signed a landmark contract with Italy’s Thales Alenia Space to build this lander dubbed Argonaut Lunar Descent Element.

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 ...

On Monday (Jan. 27), Texas-based Firefly released two photos of the moon that Blue Ghost captured from Earth orbit. One shows ...

NASA has updated its list of potential landing sites for the next human visit to the moon, which is planned for 2026. The Artemis III mission will see the first crewed lunar landing since the Apollo ...

America's next Moon lander, Blue Ghost, is traveling through space after launching from Florida earlier this month and ...

A private U.S. spacecraft bound for the moon has captured stunning images of Earth one week into its flight. Dubbed Blue ...

Firefly’s Blue Ghost — named after a species of U.S. Southeastern fireflies — should reach the moon first. The 6-foot-6-inches-tall (2-meter-tall) lander will attempt a touchdown in early March at ...

The first two moon landings under the space agency’s Artemis program, which follows the Apollo missions of the 1960s and 1970s, will see crews descending from lunar orbit to the surface in Starships.

The two robotic lunar ... from the lander's instruments. The landing by Intuitive Machines marked the first successful soft landing on the Moon by a US spacecraft since the last Apollo mission ...

NASA's Artemis program, the successor to Apollo ... Credit: AP Photo/John Raoux This photo provided by Firefly Aerospace in January 2025 shows the Blue Ghost lunar lander in a clean room.

It’s take 2 for the Tokyo-based ispace, whose first lander crashed into the moon two years ago. This time, it has a rover on board with a scoop to gather up lunar ... to Apollo, aims to get ...