Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander fell silent over the weekend, wrapping up two weeks of science experiments for NASA.

The lunar lander hitched a ride to orbit atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which took off at 7:16 p.m. ET on Wednesday. Athena, on a mission dubbed IM-2, will later aim to make a daring descent toward ...

Firefly Aerospace’s successful touchdown marks a new era of frequent commercial trips to the Moon, paving the way for a ...

Known as Athena, the IM-2 spacecraft from Intuitive Machines was launched eight days ago by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Sharing the ride to space were three other spacecraft: a moon-bound NASA ...

Grace isn't the only robot that caught a ride to the lunar surface on Athena. The lander is also carrying a small rover ...

If all goes according to plan, the Athena lander will touch down near the moon's south pole on or around March 6.

Intuitive Machines launches its second moon lander, which will use NASA and commercially developed tools to search for ice in the moon's crust.

NASA is paying $62 million to Intuitive Machines to get its drill and other experiments to the moon. The company, in turn, sold space on the lander to others. It also opened up the Falcon rocket to ...

distribution and form of water across the moon. Lunar Trailblazer tagged along for the ride to space on the same SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as Athena, a commercial lunar lander built by Intuitive ...

Commercial company Intuitive Machines has landed its second probe on the moon, but company officials say it isn't in the ...

It’s hitching a ride to the moon to find out whether robots could someday repair spaceships like the one carrying it.