SpaceX and NASA are now targeting mid-January for the launch of the private moon lander "Blue Ghost." Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander is now scheduled to launch to the moon at 1:11 a.m ...

Ghost Riders in the Sky is ready to fly. Firefly Aerospace's first mission to the moon is nearly ready to fly. The company's Blue Ghost lunar lander arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC ...

Say cheese again, moon. We're coming in for another close-up ... overlapping images from the version of SCALPSS on Firefly's Blue Ghost—SCALPSS 1.1—to produce a 3D view of the surface.

Francis Nimmo has previously received NASA funding relevant to the Moon. A physicist, a chemist and a mathematician walk into a bar. It sounds like the start of a bad joke, but in my case ...

The second full moon is called a blue moon, while the second new moon is referred to as a black moon. There's another type of black moon as well -- it refers to a month with no new moons at all.

In fact, it's nicknamed the Black Moon (similar to its two-time-in-one-month full moon counterpart, the Blue Moon). While new moons are notoriously invisible in the night sky due to their blacked ...

Is there a supermoon in December? The Cold Moon will not be a supermoon. Last month's full moon, the November Beaver Moon, was the fourth and final supermoon appearance of the year. Supermoons ...

The moon may be much older than previously thought, according to a new study. Planetary scientists believe the moon's surface may have "remelted" around 4.35 billion years ago, masking much older ...

Space fans across most of the US can witness the event. On Jan. 13, Mars will look reddish and bright as the moon passes in front of it, obscuring the planet for over an hour in some areas.

"Supermoon" is an unofficial term, but it sure sounds cool to say something like "super harvest blood moon." The most common definition of a blue moon is the second moon in a month with two full ...

December's Cold Moon—the last full moon of the year—will appear in the sky overnight and coincide with a rare lunar event in which observers can see it rise and set at its most extreme points ...

Skywatchers looking for the last full moon of 2024 can look to the sky this weekend for a glimpse of the "cold moon," which will hit peak brightness just after 4 a.m. EST on Sunday morning.