The Blue Ghost spacecraft, named for a species of firefly, took eclipse chasing to new heights. Not only did it see the Earth block the Sun from an unexplored location on the Moon, but the lander fell ...

Intuitive Machines, a Houston company aiming to repeat a 2024 landing, said its spacecraft, Athena, has power and is ...

The Athena lander, built by Texas outfit Intuitive Machines, set down at 1730 UTC Thursday in the Mons Mouton region just 160 km (100 miles) from the South Pole of the Moon, after riding a SpaceX ...

A robotic lunar lander built by Texas-based company Firefly ... did the logical thing and looked at all the missions before us, but our design was unique to Firefly,” Kim said.

A robotic lunar lander built by Texas-based Firefly has successfully landed on the moon, becoming only the second private-sector company ever to complete such a feat.

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander is on track to attempt a soft touchdown near an ancient volcanic feature on the moon’s near side early Sunday morning.

Intuitive Machines on Thursday (Feb. 20) shared images of its second Nova-C lunar ... six legs' footpads are in view. Should all go to plan, those footers — which each have a different design ...

Houston-based Intuitive Machines (IM) had hoped to make history with Athena, a hexagonal lander roughly the height of a ...

A parade of lunar landers - developed by ... Firefly promises to deliver an exciting show. The lander is equipped with key sensors packed inside four legs that protrude from its box-shaped body.

There's also the unique design of the landing legs' pads ... a device that will be put into lunar orbit around the moon to facilitate communications for that lander, and landers in the future.