Russia's first lunar lander mission in 47 years ended in failure when Luna-25 crashed into the moon. Credit: Space.com | ...

Intuitive Machines' IM-2 Athena lander ended up on its side on the moon, forcing a premature end to a mission packed with rovers and NASA science.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses. The latest casualty ...

The future of energy is getting even more interesting with three countries—China, Russia and India—teaming up to reach the ...

Early on Sunday (March 2), Firefly Aerospace successfully landed its Blue Ghost Mission 1 spacecraft upright on the Moon, thus making it the first privately built lander to accomplish such a feat.

The Athena lander, built by Texas-based company Intuitive Machines, descended to the lunar surface but the orientation of the lander is currently unknown.

The mission comes four days after another commercial space company, Firefly Aerospace, successfully landed its spacecraft on ...

As NASA astronauts aim for landings in 2027, geologists find surprises in recently retrieved samples from the far ...

Firefly Aerospace’s robotic vehicle became the second privately built spacecraft to make a soft landing on the moon. It could soon be joined by two more private lunar landers.

Though the Blue Ghost mission is funded by NASA and carries ... An elite few have landed softly on the moon: the Apollo-era US, the Soviet Union, China, Japan, India, and the Texas-based company ...