If all goes according to plan, Resilience will touch down on June 5 within Mare Frigoris ("Sea of Cold"), a basaltic plain in ...

Were the cities of Spokane and Bellingham to hold metaphorical hands across the Cascadian divide and stare deeply into each ...

Nothing makes a person seem so small as the 407-foot-tall mass of brick and glass that hovered behind Zohran Mamdani, the ...

From the first brush with Venus’ atmosphere, the lander will be fighting thermodynamics ... The thick atmosphere absorbs high-frequency blue light, so the resulting colors, or rather color ...

You can opt-out at any time. Resilience launched Jan. 15 on a Falcon 9, sharing the launch with Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost 1 lunar lander. Resilience took a low-energy trajectory to minimize ...

The Blue Ghost lander in January achieved the first soft landing on the moon by a commercial company. It was one of two moon landing attempts, but Firefly’s was the only complete success.

Blue Ghost mission controllers came up with a clever "beat the heat" idea during lunar operations. When the lander was going through lunar noon and was over-heating, Earth operators wanted to ...