For the second time in less than a week, an uncrewed American lunar lander has touched down on the surface of Earth's celestial neighbor as NASA races to get humans back to the moon in the years ...

A landing leg broke and the spacecraft tipped over on its side, limiting the mission's scientific return ... lander was expected to descend at a sedate 2.2 mph for the final drop to the surface in ...

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

For the second time in two years, a commercial lunar lander built and operated by Intuitive Machines has fallen over on the ...

The lander, called Athena, is a Nova-C class lunar lander and carries a drill and mass spectrometer capable of boring into the moon's soil to search for highly valued water ice. Such ice holds ...

On March 2, Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost made history, becoming the first commercial lunar lander to successfully touchdown on the moon’s surface. The groundbreaking lander is wasting no ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A privately owned lunar lander touched down on the moon with a drill, drone and rovers for NASA and other customers Thursday, but quickly ran into trouble and may have ...

A private lunar lander is no longer working ... on the moon while preparing for astronauts' return. Firefly Aerospace put its Blue Ghost lander down in the far northern latitudes of the moon ...

A private lunar lander is no longer working after landing sideways in a crater near the Moon’s south pole and its mission is over, officials said on Friday. The news came less than 24 hours ...