Unlike NASA’s successful Apollo moon landings that had billions of dollars behind them and ace astronauts at the helm, private companies operate on a limited budget with robotic craft that must land ...

The second-ever commercial landing on the moon comes amid a flurry of lunar exploration activity that will see around a dozen missions this year alone ...

Intuitive Machines' latest mission ended early after its lunar lander Athena touched down in a moon crater and fell onto its ...

There is also a Japanese private spacecraft, the ispace Resilience craft, currently on its way to the moon and expected to attempt a lunar landing in June.

Intuitive Machines believes its second lunar lander may be in the wrong orientation on the moon again, repeating a similar issue the company had last year when its first lander touched down lopsided ...

The Blue Ghost spacecraft, named for a species of firefly, took eclipse chasing to new heights. Not only did it see the Earth ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses. The latest casualty ...

"It has been an honor to enable science and technology experiments that support future missions to the moon, Mars and beyond.

“Y’all stuck the landing. We’re on the moon,” Will Coogan, the lander’s chief engineer, told the control room in suburban Austin after confirming the 330-pound craft was safely on the ...

The win comes just four days after Russia’s crash-landing. Japan becomes the fifth country to land successfully on the moon, with its spacecraft touching down in January. The craft lands on the ...

The win comes just four days after Russia’s crash-landing. Japan becomes the fifth country to land successfully on the moon, with its spacecraft touching down in January. The craft lands on the ...