Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar spacecraft landed upright on the Moon–a first for a private company–and released amazing HD video ...

LISTER, mounted below Blue Ghost’s lower deck, measures the flow of heat from the moon's interior with a sophisticated ...

The IM-2 mission lunar spacecraft, which was carrying 11 payloads and scientific instruments ... marking the United States' ...

Intuitive Machines' private lunar lander Athena is no longer working after missing its mark by more than 800 feet near the ...

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 ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander is wasting no time and is already drilling into the dusty regolith to study the ...

It was not until February 22, 2024, that another American-built spacecraft made a soft landing on the Moon. This was the Nova ...

The second moon landing attempt by Texas-based Intuitive Machines has ended much like the first, with its Athena lander ...

Learn why the lander Athena's second attempt was off target, it tipped over, and shut off in about 24 hours.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A privately owned lunar lander touched down on the moon with a drill, drone and rovers for NASA and ...

Kenneth Chang An image beamed from the Intuitive Machines Athena lander as it approached the ... the second person to step on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission after Neil Armstrong, and ...

A privately owned lunar ... lander. It still managed to operate briefly, ending America’s moon-landing drought of more than 50 years. Until then, the U.S. had not landed on the moon since Apollo ...