The Blue Ghost touchdown kicks off two weeks of around-the-clock research by NASA science and technology payloads.

The short answer is that you would weigh roughly one-sixth your Earth weight on the Moon — we also can figure this out for ...

Intuitive Machines, a Houston company aiming to repeat a 2024 landing, said its spacecraft, Athena, has power and is communicating but may not be upright. It is unclear how that might impact the ...

NASA is seeking submissions for a new zero gravity indicator (ZGI) that will accompany the Artemis II astronauts on their ...

An American company became the first private firm to perform a perfect moon landing early Sunday when Firefly Aerospace sent its Blue Ghost lander down to the surface. “You all stuck the landing.

The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target. During its brief rendezvous with the Red Planet, Hera caught a glimpse of the ...

But if you replace it with a piece of Styrofoam in the shape of a refrigerator, mimicking the weight of a real refrigerator in lunar gravity, “then a very light push will push it over,” Dr ...

(Courtesy/Firefly Aerospace) The mission control callouts immediately reported sensors were reading “lunar gravity and it is stable” followed by the declaration of success. “They’re just ...