CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A privately owned lunar lander touched down on the moon with a drill, drone and rovers for NASA and ...

Intuitive Machines' Athena moon lander is "alive," but it's not yet known what mission objectives can still be met.

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter managed to capture a photo of Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander on the surface of the ...

This week, follow the journeys of two lunar landers, meet “woolly mice,” see the oldest known bone tools, and more.

“You all stuck the landing. We’re on the moon,” Firefly’s Will Coogan, chief engineer for the lander, reported. Read More: Do ...

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 ...

The Athena lander, built by Texas-based company Intuitive Machines, descended to the lunar surface but the orientation of the ...

The first commercial spacecraft headed beyond the moon is on its way to deep space, but the mission is suffering from unknown ...

If an asteroid landed on the ocean, the destruction wouldn’t be as terrible “except if you’re living along the coast. It would absolutely produce tsunamis,” Fieber-Beyer said.

California-based space company AstroForge launched the first-ever mining mission to an asteroid. The mission is in serious ...

with its planned asteroid flyby unlikely. As for Athena, Intuitive Machines made dozens of repairs and upgrades following the company’s sideways touchdown by its first lander. It still managed ...

The Houston-based company put its Athena spacecraft on the moon just after 12:30 p.m. ET. The landing site is closer to the lunar south pole than any human or vehicle has traveled before.