Flavia Tata Nardini always wanted to be an astronaut. Now her space-tech firm is on its way to joining the ranks of unicorns, but she almost ran out of cash, twice.

While the Outer Space Treaty (OST) provides vital foundations for tackling this global issue, the principles it first laid out in 1967 need to be further refined to produce rules that we can apply in ...

A laser navigating tool doomed a Japanese company’s lunar lander earlier this month, causing it to crash into the moon.

The Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost lander on the moon was captured by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: Space.com | ...

This week, uncover the fate of the latest lunar lander to attempt touchdown on the moon’s surface, see a tower of worms, revisit the Dead Sea Scrolls’ age, and more.

Blue Ghost operated on the lunar surface for two weeks and completed all of its objectives. The trajectory of ispace's lander was slower, following a lower-energy, more fuel-efficient path to the ...

Resilience and Blue Ghost were launched atop a single SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Jan. 15. The Blue Ghost lander took a direct route to the moon and carried out a successful touchdown, operating for ...

The Resilience lander started its moon-bound journey on 15 January, when it launched aboard a SpaceX rocket together with Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander. While Blue Ghost touched down on ...

It shared a SpaceX ride with Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost, ... Astrobotic’s first lunar lander missed the moon altogether in 2024 and came crashing back through Earth’s atmosphere.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Jan. 15 launched the ispace lander to the moon along with a private Blue Ghost moon lander built by Firefly Aerospace, Space.com reported.

The rocket simultaneously launched another private lunar lander — Blue Ghost, from Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace — which safely arrived on the moon on March 2.