China will select taikonauts for its first-ever manned moon landing mission from the current pool that has participated in ...

“Y’all stuck the landing, we’re on the Moon,” an engineer at Firefly’s mission control in Austin, Texas, exclaimed, as cheers erupted among the team. CEO Jason Kim later confirmed the lander was ...

Firefly Aerospace landed a craft safely last week, a first for a private company. But Intuitive Machines’ mission ended when its lander wound up on its side in a crater.

A privately owned lunar lander touched down on the moon with a drill, drone and rovers for NASA and other customers Thursday, ...

Why It Matters China's space program has been advancing rapidly. In 2021, it launched its permanently crewed alternative to ...

The second moon landing by Intuitive Machines appears to have suffered the same fate as its first try last year.

Intuitive Machines said on Thursday that its robotic Athena lander has landed on the moon's surface, but details of the ...

Intuitive Machines' Athena moon lander is "alive," but it's not yet known what mission objectives can still be met.

The Houston-based company put its Athena spacecraft on the moon just after 12:30 p.m. ET. The landing site is closer to the lunar south pole than any human or vehicle has traveled before.

Despite some connection delays postlanding, the lunar lander Athena is officially set to study what lies beneath the moon’s ...

Intuitive Machines' second moon landing appears to have suffered the same fate as the company's first attempt last year, with issues involving a laser range finder causing landing problems that ...