The lander, built by Intuitive Machines, touched down on the lunar surface at around 6:24 p.m. ET, overcoming a late-stage glitch with its onboard laser instruments.

Landing on the Moon is no easy feat; the lunar surface has become a graveyard for far too many missions that came to untimely ends. But Firefly’s Blue Ghost conquered the lunar surface a few ...

Texas-based Firefly Aerospace, the second private-sector company to soft-land a spacecraft on the moon, released stunning footage from the Blue Ghost’s touchdown on Sunday.

If all goes as planned, Odysseus, a private spacecraft, will touch down on the lunar surface on Thursday. It will be the first U.S. moon landing in more than 50 years.