A privately owned lunar lander touched down on the moon Thursday, but as the minutes dragged on, flight controllers could not ...

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.

Firefly Aerospace landed on the moon Sunday morning, becoming the second Texas company to make a soft lunar landing and the first private company to remain upright. The company’s uncrewed Blue Ghost ...

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

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

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 first attempt to send an Australian-made rocket into orbit is set to take place no sooner than March 15, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reports. Gilmour Space Technologies' launch window ...

The best estimate is 1.3 million craters over one kilometre in diameter on the moon, with another 700,000 or so smaller ones. Asteroid 2024 YR4 was discovered on Dec. 27, 2024 by the Chilean ...