Blue Ghost's main mission will be research. It will hang out in Earth's orbit for 25 days taking measurements and waiting for ...

Blue Ghost's final descent to the Moon is tentatively scheduled for March 2. The target landing site is in Mare Crisium, an ...

One rocket, two missions: lunar landers built by US and Japanese companies launched their "rideshare" to the moon on ...

Lunar New Year — also commonly called Chinese New Year — marks the start of the new year based on lunar calendars, or monthly cycles of the moon's phases. The lunar new year starts with the ...

Based on the cycles of the moon rather than the sun, Lunar New Year —which is typically celebrated in Asian countries including China, Vietnam, and South Korea — falls on January 29 this year ...

Curtis Szajkovics is a flight controller with NASA contractor Firefly Aerospace, helping to guide a spacecraft to a moon ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander launched at 1:11 a.m. Wednesday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on ...

Firefly is making its first attempt to put a vehicle on the moon, but this mission marks a second try for Ispace, after its first lander crashed and blasted a divot in the lunar surface in 2023.

Robotic vehicles from Firefly Aerospace of Texas and Ispace of Japan parted ways early Wednesday after being launched on the same SpaceX rocket. Both are aiming for the lunar surface. transcript 3 ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — Getting cheers from a crowd battling the chilly winds, SpaceX successfully launched a pair of lunar landers from companies Firefly Aerospace and ispace early Wednesday ...

On Wednesday, January 15, for the first time two spacecraft were launched to the Moon by a single launch vehicle. The launch was made using ... On board the station is a computer specially designed ...

What is the moon phase today? Today, Jan. 18, 2025, the moon is 19 days old, in the Waning Gibbous phase of its lunar cycle. It is 78% illuminated. Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the ...