The shielding technology was tested in vacuum chambers, where it was used to remove lunar dust samples brought home by NASA's Apollo missions. The first time EDS was tested in space was on the ...

Mission controllers were able to confirm that Athena lunar lander made it to the moon, but they do not know the status of the ...

Firefly Aerospace on Monday announced the conclusion of its Blue Ghost lunar lander mission, declaring it the first “fully successful” commercial operation on the moon.

The Blue Ghost lunar lander, operated by Firefly Aerospace from Texas, became the first commercial spacecraft to image an ...

The moon lander Athena made it to the lunar surface, but its condition and exact location remain unclear, Intuitive Machines and NASA confirmed.

Less than a day after Intuitive Machines landed on the Moon, the company declared an early end to its mission after its ...

Intuitive Machines got its Athena lunar lander on the moon’s south pole Thursday on a mission with NASA payloads, but tipped ...

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 lunar lander snapped incredible photographs of the March 13–14 total lunar eclipse, as seen from the moon ...

Second lunar lander to reach moon this year Athena's arrival is the second of three to reach the moon this year. A lander built by Austin-based Firefly Aerospace successfully touched down on the ...

In addition to these payloads, Texas-based Firefly performed some work of its own on the Moon. Blue Ghost captured a total solar eclipse from the Moon on March 14, while Earth simultaneously ...

A lunar lander built by Intuitive Machines is scheduled to descend to the moon’s surface today, potentially marking the ...

“Any time humanity puts a lander on the moon, it’s a good day,” Dr. Crain said. The main customer of both missions is NASA under its Commercial Lunar Payload Services program, which hires ...