The current plan calls for Resilience to land that day at 3:24 p.m. EST (2024 GMT) near the center of Mare Frigoris ("Sea of Cold"), a basaltic plain in the moon 's northern reaches. But that's not ...

It's lights out for the first private lunar lander to pull off a fully successful moon mission. Firefly Aerospace's Blue ...

The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, conducted a series of experiments. It drilled three feet into the lunar soil, took X-ray images of the magnetic bubble that surrounds and protects Earth ...

The privately-owned lander turned its cameras toward Earth as our planet cast its shadow over the moon. It’s not the first spacecraft to do so.

Photos of the lunar sunset and glow will ... India and Japan — have achieved a successful landing. A Japanese company’s lunar lander shared the SpaceX rocket ride, but took an even longer ...

(Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images) From the moon ... lander again last week. The Source: Information in this story came from NASA, Firely Aerospace's X account, FOX Weather, the ...

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 lunar lander snapped incredible photographs ... More recently, in 2009 a Japanese mission called Kaguya witnessed a penumbral lunar eclipse, a type ...

Photo: Courtesy Firefly Aerospace A private lunar lander carrying a drill ... closed out the Apollo program in 1972. A third lander from the Japanese company ispace is still three months from ...

The lander memorialized the milestone with a photo, snapping a nice shot ... was "a historic first of its type for a Japanese private, commercial lunar lander," according to ispace.