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

Tokyo-based company ispace's Resilience lunar lander will launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket early Wednesday (Jan. 15).

Firefly's "Blue Moon" and ispace's "Resilience" are the latest in an ongoing push to gain private-sector experience exploring ...

Two moon landers, one from Japan's ispace and another from U.S. space firm Firefly, began their journeys into space on Wednesday with SpaceX's unusual double moonshot launch, underscoring the global ...

Sharing a ride inside the Falcon 9 rocket’s cargo bay is a 7.5-foot-tall (2.3-meter-tall) lunar lander from Tokyo-based Ispace. Wednesday’s launch kicked off the company’s second attempt to send one ...

A private U.S. spacecraft has captured stunning images of Earth one week into its flight. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A private ...

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

NASA partners with private companies to search for lunar water ice, a key factor for future human exploration of the moon ...

On January 15, two moon landers, one from Japan's ispace and another from the U.S. company Firefly Aerospace, launched into ...

A tiny red Swedish-style cottage is set to become the Moon’s first "building," part of an ambitious art project now en route ...

The two landers rocketed away in the middle of the night from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, the latest in a stream of private spacecraft aiming for the moon.

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