A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida early Wednesday and deployed two commercial lunar landers on separate trajectories to reach the Moon in the next few ...

The Durston X-Dome 1+ was one recent example, and the all-new Lunar Orbiter from Six Moon Designs makes another intriguing option, complete with a wide-spanning exterior pole structure for ...

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 ...

Chinese researchers have discovered a peculiar crystal growth pattern in the lunar samples from the Chang'e-5 mission. Specifically, chromite nanocrystals can grow outward from the surface of ...

Two Saskatchewan artists hope to see their work rocket into space, and maybe all the way to the moon, as part of a project called The Lunar Codex. The project invited Indigenous artists in all ...

The year in space is off to a strong start for 2025 as two lunar landers from private companies — Texas-based Firefly Aerospace and Tokyo-based iSpace — have officially launched from Earth and are now ...

Two private missions heading for the moon have blasted off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The lunar landers launched in the middle of the night from NASA's Kennedy Space Centre and are the latest to ...

Blue Ghost and Resilience are now making their way through space to deploy research payloads onto the lunar surface. Blue Ghost and Resilience are now making their way through space to deploy ...

due to a rare total lunar eclipse. Late on March 13 and in the early hours of March 14 this year, 13 percent of the world's population will fall in the path of a total eclipse of the moon ...

In a two-for-one moonshot, SpaceX launched a pair of lunar landers on Wednesday for U.S. and Japanese companies looking to jumpstart business on Earth's dusty sidekick. The two landers rocketed ...

Not one but two private firms each launched spacecraft to the Moon today — a sign of companies’ growing interest in lunar exploration, a risky enterprise long dominated by government agencies.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — In a two-for-one moonshot, SpaceX launched a pair of lunar landers Wednesday for U.S. and Japanese companies looking to jumpstart business on Earth’s dusty sidekick.