A second commercially-built moon lander, this one built by Houston ... Athena was programmed to flip upright into a vertical, tail-down orientation for the final phase of the descent, scanning ...

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

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 has touched down successfully, and marks a key milestone in NASA’s quest to have ...

The total lunar eclipse on March 13-14 will plunge moon missions into darkness. What will happen to the lunar spacecraft?

So his horizon was the plane in which he was travelling. This meant he framed it so the edge of the Moon was vertical, with planet Earth a little to the left but with its North and South poles ...

Athena will land in the moon's Mons Mouton region at 12:32 p.m. EST.

After hours of uncertainty, officials from the Houston company said there are clues that the spacecraft is on its side, which ...

Landing on the Moon is risky. In the last decade ... a set of eight smaller reaction control system thrusters to slow its vertical descent. This phase of the landing sequence will begin with ...