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.

Moon landing goes sideways: Odysseus mission will be cut short after craft tipped over The private U.S. spacecraft made it to the moon Thursday and ushered in a new era of lunar missions since ...

The moon lander, nicknamed Odie, touched down near the lunar south pole on Feb. 22 after a nail-biting approach and a malfunction in the spacecraft's landing guidance system. The spacecraft did so ...

June 5 (UPI) --After losing contact with it for several hours, a privately owned Japanese company said its lunar lander had crashed into the surface of moon in what the company, ispace, confirmed ...

Japanese lunar craft likely crashed during Moon landing, company says. Company officials lost contact with the lander just before it was supposed to set down on the Moon ...

NASA says it is planning on sending humans back to the moon by 2024 01:49. Despite protests from Texas lawmakers, NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, will manage the agency ...

The lunar lander had been expected to attempt a landing near the moon's south pole early this week, Russian media reported. ABC News' Tanya Stukalova contributed to this story. Related Topics ...

The Hakuto-R Mission 1 Moon lander, which aimed to be the first private lander on the Moon, has likely crashed into the Moon's surface, according to its creators. The lander began its four month ...

Russia launches its first mission to moon in 47 years 04:09. Russia's space agency said on Friday that all systems of lunar landing space craft that blasted off Friday were working normally hours ...

The U.S. may have to wait a little longer before a lunar lander can touch down on the moon for the first time in five decades. But shortly after Peregrine began powering its way toward the moon ...

A rocket carrying a lunar landing craft has blasted off on Russia’s first moon mission in nearly 50 years, racing to land before an Indian spacecraft.