The Blue Ghost lunar lander, operated by Firefly Aerospace from Texas, was able capture the phenomenon between Thursday night and Friday morning while stationed on the moon's Earth-facing side ...

The total lunar eclipse that unveiled a reddish blood moon overnight to nearly half of Earth looked a bit different from the vantage of our celestial neighbor.. The Blue Ghost lunar lander ...

Learn more about the tardigrades aboard the Beresheet spacecraft that crashed on the moon in 2019, and how they could have ...

Intuitive Machines' lunar lander Athena launched to the moon 04:43. With two commercial moon landers already on their way, Houston-based Intuitive Machines launched its second robotic lander atop ...

For the second time in less than a week, an uncrewed American lunar lander has touched down on the surface of Earth's celestial neighbor as NASA races to get humans back to the moon in the years ...

In January 2024, American company Astrobotic also launched a lander, which suffered a fuel leak and did not reach the moon. To inform the design of Blue Ghost, Firefly looked at previous missions.

The Athena moon lander, with its four legs in place, atop a satellite carrier with a commercial asteroid probe and NASA lunar orbiter attached. The payload is seen as it's being encapsulated in a ...

Astrobotic's first lunar lander missed the moon altogether in 2024 and came crashing back through Earth's atmosphere. For decades, governments competed to get to the moon.

“Anytime humanity puts a lander on the moon, it’s a good day,” Crain said. The main customer of both missions is NASA under its Commercial Lunar Payload Services program, which hires private ...

Private lunar lander is declared dead after landing sideways in a crater near the moon’s south pole. The Athena spacecraft missed its mark by more than 800 feet, Intuitive Machines said.

Moon Lander’s Journey to Lunar Surface Ends With Uncertainty. Intuitive Machines, a Houston company aiming to repeat a 2024 landing, said its spacecraft, Athena, has power and is communicating ...