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.

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 ...

A private lunar lander from Japan crashed while attempting a touchdown Friday, the latest casualty in the commercial rush to the moon.

The Blue Ghost moon lander from Firefly Aerospace — the first private lunar lander to pull off a fully successful mission — has gone quiet after two weeks.

After recently landing at the Moon’s Mare Crisium, Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander craft was treated to a spectacle that’s rarely observed: a total solar eclipse as seen from th… ...

Intuitive Machines' lander, named Athena, is expected to land March 6; company hopes to avoid fate of its earlier spacecraft, which tipped over at touchdown ...

The Indian rover, Pragyan, was carried to the moon’s surface by the Vikram lander, part of India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission, the country’s third lunar mission. At stake was more than planetary ...

Blue Ghost — named after a rare U.S. species of fireflies — had its size and shape going for it. The squat four-legged lander stands 6-foot-6 (2 meters) tall and 11 feet (3.5 meters) wide ...

A model of the lunar lander Resilience, operated by the Japanese company ispace, is displayed at a venue where employees monitored the actual craft's attempted landing on the moon, in Tokyo, on ...

A Japanese spacecraft has probably crashed on the Moon, the second failed landing attempt for Tokyo-based private firm ispace. The HAKUTO-R Mission 2 (M2) lander — also called Resilience ...