A university-led lunar orbiter designed to pinpoint the location of ice or liquid water trapped in rocks on the moon's ...

Firefly had purchased a Falcon 9 launch to send its Blue Ghost lander to the moon. At the same time, Ispace, to save on the costs for the mission, had asked SpaceX for a rideshare, that is ...

A Falcon 9 rocket delivered the two landers to space earlier this morning, kickstarting a pair of exciting private Moon missions.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket set for takeoff early Wednesday will launch not one, but two spacecraft on separate missions to the moon. The launch, scheduled for 1:11 a.m. Eastern time at Kennedy Space ...

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

The Moonhouse, the size of a big hand, was ready to hitch a ride to the moon on a lunar lander operated by the Japanese company ispace. It was set for transport on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket that ...

Two newly launched private moon landers have long roads ahead of them. Early on Tuesday morning (Jan. 15), a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sent Blue Ghost and Resilience — lunar landers built by ...

The Falcon 9 launched at 1:11 a.m. EST (0611 GMT) beneath a full moon and a clear, starry sky. The rocket's first stage came back to Earth as planned, touching down on SpaceX's "Just Read the ...

Jan. 14 (UPI) --SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a pair of lunar landers into space early Wednesday, sending Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost and ispace's Resilience on their lengthy ...