If all goes according to plan, the Athena lander will touch down near the moon's south ... 8.5 minutes later, the rocket's first-stage booster came back to Earth for a landing on SpaceX's A ...

The lunar lander, called Blue Ghost, settled onto the Moon's surface at 2:34 am CST (3:34 am EST; 08:34 UTC). A few dozen ...

The mission, aptly named “Ghost Riders in the Sky,” touched down in Mare Crisium, a large impact site filled with basaltic lava on the Moon. Blue Ghost pulled off a precision landing, touching down ...

The accomplishment marked Firefly as the first commercial company to achieve a fully successful soft landing on the Moon. The Blue Ghost lander touched ...

A week on, and a team at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia has just released first-of-its-kind footage of a lunar ...

With two commercial moon landers already on their way, Houston-based Intuitive Machines launched its second robotic lander atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket ... upright landing after the company's ...

Three other spacecraft also hitched a ride on the SpaceX rocket. transcript Onboard ... route and is expected to arrive at the moon in May. Its landing site is near the center of Mare Frigoris ...

The four-legged Blue Ghost carried 10 scientific payloads as it touched down near an ancient volcanic vent on Mare Crisium, a ...

Intuitive Machines Athena lander launches on SpaceX rocket ... landing. The six-legged lander, named Athena and roughly as tall as a giraffe, will spend about a week heading toward the moon ...

It’s taking a fast track to the moon — with a landing on March 6 — while hoping ... Last month, U.S. and Japanese companies shared a rocket and separately launched landers toward Earth ...

Intuitive Machines, an American space company, launched its lunar lander Athena to the moon in late February, but the craft had a rough touchdown, landing ... SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket.

Intuitive Machines' hexagonal-shaped lander, Athena, is set to launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket during a window ... the price tag is $62.5 million. "Landing on the Moon is very challenging ...