On Sunday morning, a spacecraft built by Firefly Aerospace softly touched down on the surface of the Moon, making the Texas-based startup the second private company in history to pull off the feat.

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Firefly Aerospace put its Blue Ghost lander down in the far northern latitudes of the moon’s near side. The news came less than 24 hours after the botched landing attempt by Texas-based ...

A privately owned lunar lander touched down on the moon Thursday, but as the minutes dragged on, flight controllers could not confirm its condition or whether it was even upright near the south pole.

The lander apparently touched down 100 miles or so from the moon's south pole around 12:30 p.m. EST. The exact timing and the lander's exact location were not immediately known as company flight ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A privately owned lunar lander touched down on the moon with a drill, drone and rovers for NASA and other customers Thursday, but quickly ran into trouble and may ...

HOUSTON - Another historic U.S. robotic moon landing happened Thursday ... In lunar orbit, Athena used breaking burns to slow down from 4,000 mph to a few miles per second before landing.

We absolutely believe there’s a place for rovers on the moon … but also there’s a place for hoppers and technologies that allow you to go down into extreme environments where you can’t ...