Houston-based Intuitive Machines, which last year became the first private-sector company to soft-land a vehicle on the moon, said that its Athena spacecraft is on track to touch down around 11:30 a.m ...

A robotic lander named Athena has made its final descent to the moon’s surface, marking the second lunar touchdown for a US company<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More ...

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost has landed, activating NASA’s cutting-edge instruments. These include a dust-clearing system, a revolutionary navigation experiment, and cameras studying lunar touchdown ...

Firefly Aerospace landed a craft safely last week, a first for a private company. The status of Intuitive Machines’ lander is unknown.

A privately owned lunar lander touched down on the moon Thursday, but as the minutes dragged on, flight controllers could not ...

The moon lander Athena made it to the lunar surface, but its condition was unclear as mission controllers rushed to ...

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

Blue Ghost successfully landed on the moon on Sunday (March 2), touching down in Mare Crisium ("Sea of Crises") — a large ...

A radiation-tolerant computer developed at Montana State University landed safely on the moon around 1:30 a.m. Mountain Time, Sunday. Carrying a suite of NASA science and technology, Firefly Aerospace ...

Intuitive Machines' Athena could be the second U.S. spacecraft to land on the moon in a week after Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost made it Sunday.

It was not until February 22, 2024, that another American-built spacecraft made a soft landing on the Moon. This was the Nova-C Odysseus lander built by Intuitive Machines. It landed, toppled over, ...

Texas-based Firefly Aerospace, the second private-sector company to soft-land a spacecraft on the moon, released stunning ...