Firefly Aerospace on Monday announced the conclusion of its Blue Ghost lunar lander mission, declaring it the first “fully successful” commercial operation on the moon.

It’s a whole different type of moon landing. A Long Island Episcopal church will soon host a breathtaking, 20-foot artistic replica of Earth’s favorite space rock and weeks of fun events ...

landed on the moon while still moving sideways. A landing leg broke and the spacecraft tipped over on its side, limiting the mission's scientific return. Intuitive's stock fell 20% in the wake of ...

The six-legged spacecraft, which got off the ground last Wednesday from Florida, has since been circling the moon once about every two hours ahead of a planned landing attempt Thursday ...

Intuitive Machines' IM-2 mission, a part of NASA's $2.6 billion Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative, was on track for its target landing at 12:32 p.m. Thursday near the moon's ...

Japan’s 1st moon lander has hit its target, but it appears to be upside-down Japan became the fifth country in history to reach the moon when the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, or SLIM ...

A Houston-based space company just released a tantalizing sneak preview — an image sequence of its robotic spacecraft flying over the moon's south pole, near its planned landing site.

HOUSTON - Another historic U.S. robotic moon landing happened Thursday, but whether the lander is sitting upright on the surface remains unclear. The space industry is in its moon era ...

Commercial company Intuitive Machines has had some luck getting its lunar landers to the surface of the moon, but hasn’t had any luck keeping them upright. The Houston-based company flying its ...

Images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which will pass over the landing site, could pinpoint Athena’s precise location. It has been a busy week in spaceflight and on the moon.

Intuitive Machines' IM-2 Athena lander ended up on its side on the moon, forcing a premature end to a mission packed with rovers and NASA science. Amanda Kooser Freelance writer Amanda C.

As lunar nightfall descended, Blue Ghost was expected to capture 4K video of the lunar horizon ... “the first fully successful commercial Moon landing” in history. The title references ...