When the plane was ready to retire, its white bodywork was stripped away and chopped up into 12,000 special keychains. The Boeing 747 was nicknamed Ed Force One and flew with Iron Maiden until the ...

The uncrewed robotic lander softly touched down on the moon on March 2. A few hours after that landing, the receiver picked up and tracked signals again from the lunar surface — a first-time ...

We’re on the moon,” Firefly’s Will Coogan, chief engineer for the lander, reported. An upright and stable landing makes Firefly – a start-up founded a decade ago – the first private ...

The four-legged lunar lander is roughly the size of a compact car. The lander is carrying a vacuum that would suck up moon dirt for analysis. There is also a drill on board that can measure ...

It carried a vacuum to suck up moon dirt for analysis and a drill to measure temperature as deep as 10 feet below the surface. Also on board: a device for eliminating abrasive lunar dust - a ...

I’ve been trying them out and my favorite one that perfectly captures my state of waking up on Monday is the face with bags under eyes emoji, which complements the yawning face emoji I ...

"You have to take larger masses up to the moon to have a sustainable human presence on the moon. Habitats, human landers — there's a lot of elements that have to go into sustaining humans on the ...

touched down on the moon last year, but it hit the surface harder than expected and a landing leg failed. The vehicle ended up on its side and unable to complete its mission. Athena's arrival was ...

The Athena lander from Intuitive Machines could not charge its batteries after ending up on its side ... By Kenneth Chang A day after landing on the moon, the robotic Athena spacecraft built ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander has successfully touched down on the moon, in a pivotal moment for private space travel. The size of a compact car, the four-legged lander is carrying 10 ...