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.

A private US company says it has landed a spacecraft close to the Moon's South Pole but fears the machine is not upright. The ...

The Athena lander, built by Texas-based company Intuitive Machines, could be the second commercial spacecraft to land on the moon this week.

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.

Blue Ghost is getting to work after its private moon landing. Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander has captured a gorgeous ...

Following a precise lunar orbit insertion on March 3, Athena is currently in excellent health, awaiting optimal sunlight ...

Its first images showed the probe sitting upright on the grey surface ... penetrate and scoop up the crumbly lunar dirt. Other experiments will study the stickiness of Moon dust, and a way ...

NASA's Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE), with the assistance of the Italian Space Agency, has become the first device ...

This can only happen during a full moon when the sun is fully illuminated against the moon’s surface. At certain times, the Earth will pass in between the sun and the moon, cutting off the ...

Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses. Last year, a spacecraft built by Intuitive ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander has captured a gorgeous shot of sunrise on the moon ... lunar surface. Blue Ghost aced its lunar landing attempt on Sunday (March 2), setting down close ...

The new footage features a close-up of the moon’s far side, an area that is not visible from Earth, taken after the lander transitioned from a high elliptical orbit to a lower elliptical orbit — about ...