The PULSAR research project, led by Belgian engineering firm Tractebel, has unveiled the conceptual design of a plutonium-238 ...

Firefly Aerospace's first mission to the moon is poised to launch in the early morning hours on Jan. 15. The company's Blue ...

Recent research has focused on various aspects of lunar lander dynamics, including stability during landing, optimization of landing gear design, and innovative mechanisms for impact absorption.

SpaceX has sent Japanese and U.S. lunar landers on separate missions in a major step in the race to commercialize the Moon.

The moon is about to gain its first tiny house. Launching on a Japanese lunar lander is the "Moonhouse," a project by Mikael Genberg 25 years in the making.

The lander is packed with 10 scientific instruments to study the lunar surface and gather data to support future human missions to the Moon as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services ...

Still circling Earth, Firefly Aerospace’s lunar lander fired its thrusters Thursday to put it on a path to reach the moon in over a month. Dubbed Blue Ghost, the spacecraft beamed back photos ...

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 ...

One of the lunar landers is from Texas-based Firefly Aerospace, which is flying 10 experiments to the moon for NASA.

AUSTIN, Texas — A lunar lander that was designed in Central Texas has completed the first step of its mission to the moon. Cedar Park-based Firefly Aerospace says that "Blue Ghost" has ...

“We’ve done everything we can on the design and the engineering,” Kim ... January 2025 shows the Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost lunar lander being placed in a rocket fairing.

SpaceX has launched a pair of lunar landers for US and Japanese companies looking to jumpstart business up there.