The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, conducted a series of experiments. It drilled three feet into the lunar soil, took X-ray images of the magnetic bubble that surrounds and protects Earth ...

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Firefly originally intended to develop a spacecraft based on the design of Israel's Beresheet lander, which was the first ...

However, NASA said in December 2024 that their return would be further delayed until at least late March. The spacecraft landed uncrewed in a New Mexico desert on Sept. 6, 2024. Williams first flew to ...

On Sunday morning, a spacecraft built by Firefly Aerospace softly touched down on the surface of the Moon, making the Texas-based startup the second private company in history to pull off the feat.

Athena's landing was the closest a spacecraft has come to the south pole, just 100 miles away. That's where NASA is targeting for its first landing by astronauts since the 1960s and 1970s Apollo ...

The southern pole region of the moon has harsh sun angles and ... landed the first spacecraft on the Moon's south pole region, marking the United States' first return since Apollo 17 and the ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Video of a private lunar lander carrying a drill, vacuum and other experiments for NASA touching down on the ...

During the touchdown in February 2024, the company’s Odysseus lander descended too fast and at an odd angle, causing one of the landing legs to break and the spacecraft to fall lopsided.

NASA’s last crewed landing was Apollo 17 in 1972. Athena launched last Wednesday aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The same mission also carried NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer, a spacecraft designed ...

This photo provided by Intuitive Machines on Friday, March 7, 2025, shows the Athena, a private lunar lander, after landing sideways in a crater near the moon's south pole. (Intuitive Machines via AP) ...