Blue Ghost aced its touchdown try early this morning (March 2), becoming just the second private spacecraft ever to soft-land on the moon. The lander hauled 10 science experiments to the lunar surface ...

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 ...

Firefly Aerospace’s successful touchdown marks a new era of frequent commercial trips to the Moon, paving the way for a long-term human presence on the lunar surface. Before we get too ahead of ...

NASA's Orion crew module test article is framed by the well deck of the U.S. Navy's USS Somerset as teams practice Artemis 2 ...

land on the moon's surface, then launch itself back toward Earth. On top of that, both stages of the rocket are meant to be reusable, which could slash the cost of spaceflight "by an order of ...

Resilience also launched on the same rocket as Blue Ghost, though it is taking a much slower trajectory to the moon and is not expected to land before spring. Ispace is targeting landing in a 750 ...

Intuitive Machines has landed ... trip to the moon. The rest of Athena’s mission now hangs in the balance. The spacecraft, which took off for the moon aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on February ...

Multiple governments and companies have struggled to land ... rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on January 15, embarking on a leisurely 45-day mission to the Moon.

A privately owned lunar lander touched down on the moon ... The rocket-powered drone came from Intuitive Machines — it’s meant to jump into a permanently shadowed crater near the landing ...

A second commercially-built moon lander ... latest landing problem. Known as Athena, the IM-2 spacecraft from Intuitive Machines was launched eight days ago by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

(AP) — A privately owned lunar lander touched down on the moon ... rocket-powered drone came from Intuitive Machines — it’s meant to hop into a permanently shadowed crater near the landing ...