Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost has landed, activating NASA’s cutting-edge instruments. These include a dust-clearing system, a revolutionary navigation experiment, and cameras studying lunar touchdown ...

A privately owned lunar lander has touched down on the moon. But flight controllers in Texas cannot confirm its condition or ...

Firefly Aerospace landed a craft safely last week, a first for a private company. The status of Intuitive Machines’ lander is unknown.

Athena has landed on the moon, but the overall status of the spacecraft remains unclear. The mission’s plans include studies ...

IM-2 is part of a new wave of private lunar exploration. For example, Firefly Aerospace successfully put its Blue Ghost ...

Firefly Aerospace, another Texas space company, successfully reached the Mare Crisium region of the moon on Sunday morning. NASA’s program: The main customer of both missions is NASA under its ...

When astronauts walk on the moon, they'll serve as the eyes, hands, and boots-on-the-ground interpreters supporting the ...

The commercially and privately constructed Athena spacecraft landed on the moon Thursday, the second such device to do so in ...

Intuitive Machines' Athena moon lander planned to deploy two small rovers, a rocket-powered "hopper," and use a powerful ...

Blue Ghost successfully landed on the moon on Sunday (March 2), touching down in Mare Crisium ("Sea of Crises") — a large ...

Commercial company Intuitive Machines is attempting to land a probe near the lunar south pole. If successful, it will be the ...