With the launch of Intuitive Machines' Athena spacecraft atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket last night (Feb. 27), three lunar ...

A robotic lunar lander built by Texas-based Firefly has successfully landed on the moon, becoming only the second ...

This 340-mile-wide (550-kilometer) impact basin was formed when an asteroid ... a month circling the Earth, gradually boosting its orbit higher until it reached the vicinity of the Moon on ...

Intuitive Machines, a Houston company aiming to repeat a 2024 landing, said its spacecraft, Athena, has power and is communicating but may not be upright. It is unclear how that might impact the ...

Scientists believe Mare Crisium was formed when the moon was struck by an asteroid. Over time ... the lander spent about 16 days circling the moon and capturing dazzling imagery of its features.

Blue Ghost and its 10 NASA payloads have been circling the moon for two weeks and are scheduled ... a scouting probe built by the asteroid-mining company Astroforge, and NASA's water-hunting ...

The Blue Ghost lander traveled 2.8 million miles over 45 days – first circling the Earth ... northeast quadrant of the moon’s near side. Mare Crisium, an ancient asteroid impact site, was ...

While not technically a moon - Nasa stresses it was never captured ... Current data suggests that during its 2055 visit, the sun-circling asteroid will once again make a temporary and partial ...