Blue Ghost conducted the DOI on the far side of the Moon, which caused a communications blackout with Earth. The spacecraft ...

Inside was Luna 9, the first spacecraft to land softly on another world. After coming to rest, the Soviet Union’s lander unfolded four protective “petals” to reveal a camera and took the first picture ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses. The latest casualty ...

The images were taken by a camera on board the unmanned Blue Ghost spacecraft which successfully landed on the planet earlier ...

Intuitive Machines said on Thursday that its robotic Athena lander has landed on the moon's surface but details of the ...

The Athena lander, built by Texas-based company Intuitive Machines, descended to the lunar surface but the orientation of the ...

targeted its landing site some 100 miles from the lunar south pole for a touchdown timed for 12:32 p.m. ET. But by that time, the lander's engine was still running, telemetry showed, as it ...

Houston-based space startup Intuitive Machines is one of many companies primed by Nasa to return the US to the moon. Read ...

The lander is expected to operate for 10 days before lunar nightfall plunges it into ... The United States, China, India, Japan and the former Soviet Union were in that exclusive club.

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 was expected to touch down around 11:31 ...