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

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For the past week, an uncrewed lunar lander has been journeying through outer space on a 60-day mission to the moon on behalf ...

NASA's Artemis program goal of establishing a human presence on Earth's moon is closer than ever to becoming a reality within ...

What is the moon phase today? Today, Jan. 25, 2025, the moon is 26 days old, in the Waning Crescent phase of its lunar cycle. It is 15% illuminated. Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the ...

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The two lunar landers — Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost, and Resilience, built by the Japanese company ispace — lifted off ...

Blue Ghost's main mission will be research. It will hang out in Earth's orbit for 25 days taking measurements and waiting for ...

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

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