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

Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses. Only five countries have done it. The latest ...

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

Although no easy feat, Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander descended in a controlled fashion, and without mishap, to the ...

Blue Ghost, a Texas-built lunar lander, sent its final message home from the moon’s surface Sunday before powering down and ...

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 ...

Unlike NASA's successful Apollo moon landings, which had billions of dollars behind them, private companies operate on a limited budget with robotic craft that must land on their own, said Firefly ...

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 ...

Mission controllers were able to confirm that Athena lunar lander made it to the moon, but they do not know the status of the spacecraft.

The Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform (MAPP) rover aboard the toppled Intuitive Machines Athena lunar lander survived ...

Officials at the Houston-based Intuitive Machines, which built and flew the spacecraft to the moon, announced Friday morning that the mission is officially over after Athena missed its planned landing ...

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 ...