A private lunar lander has captured the first high-definition sunset pictures from the moon. Firefly Aerospace and NASA ...

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 ...

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

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

The first images of lunar lander engine thruster stirring up moon dust were captured during the successful Blue Ghost descent ...

As part of NASA's Artemis campaign, the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative, managed out of Johnson Space ...

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

Space is hard. Hopefully not so hard the three rovers on this spaceship are lost For the second time this week, a privately ...

The lander, called Athena, is a Nova-C class lunar lander and carries a drill and mass spectrometer capable of boring into the moon's soil to search for highly valued water ice. Such ice holds ...

like the design of the Intuitive Machines’ lunar landers. The company’s first lander, Odysseus, tipped over when it landed while moving too fast horizontally along a 12-degree slope in ...

It will target Mons Mouton, a flat-topped mountain some 100 miles (160 km) from the lunar south pole ... its distance from the ground - broke a lander leg and caused the craft to topple over ...