A private US lander has captured eerie high-definition images of a lunar sunset, which NASA hopes will help unravel the ...

With the launch of Intuitive Machines' Athena spacecraft atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket last night (Feb. 27), three lunar landers are currently on their way to the moon. Such a surge of exploration has ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 sits horizontal at Kennedy Space Center Launch Pad 39-A on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025 awaiting launch of an Intuitive Machines lunar lander ... of NASA’s Artemis program.

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

Astronomy contributor and lunar expert Robert Reeves looks back on a Texas-sized achievement in Moon exploration.

The Blue Ghost lunar lander, managed by Texas company Firefly Aerospace, touched down Sunday morning on the moon's near side.

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

Blue Ghost, though, follows in the footsteps of one other NASA mission that previously witnessed the phenomenon from the lunar surface. NASA's Surveyor 3 mission, which sent an uncrewed lander to ...

Among the NASA instruments are the Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1, or PRIME-1, which comprises a drill and mass spectrometer to explore the Moon’s subsurface for traces of water ice. The ...

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 ...