The privately-owned lander turned its cameras toward Earth as our planet cast its shadow over the moon. It’s not the first spacecraft to do so.

The 2024 Technical.ly Award-winning company, founded to compete for the Google Lunar X Prize, began as a small startup amid the backdrop of an economic downturn and waning lunar ambitions after NASA’s ...

Intuitive Machines' lunar lander tipped over again, but not before depositing an Imagine Dragons song on the moon.

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost has landed, activating NASA’s cutting-edge instruments. These include a dust-clearing system, a revolutionary navigation experiment, and cameras studying lunar touchdown ...

Intuitive Machines' original lunar lander, Odysseus, also toppled onto its side after coming in hot and fast during a moon ...

The Houston-based company put its Athena spacecraft on the moon just after 12:30 p.m. ET. The landing site is closer to the lunar south pole than any human or vehicle has traveled before.

A 15-foot-tall spacecraft had an imperfect landing on the moon. The NASA-funded mission to the moon, operated by the Houston ...

Blue Ghost, which was launched to orbit on a SpaceX rocket in January, stayed in orbit around the Earth before making its ...

The Blue Ghost lander touched down on the moon on Sunday. A smooth, upright landing makes Firefly the first private outfit to put a spacecraft on the moon without crashing or falling over Two ...

“You all stuck the landing. We’re on the moon,” Firefly’s Will Coogan, chief engineer for the lander, reported. An upright and stable landing makes Firefly — a startup founded a decade ...

Firefly Aerospace scores lunar touchdown with Blue Ghost lander Moon landing marks company's first, second for a private firm Firefly one of many companies in modern moon race led by US ...

Firefly becomes the second private firm to score a Moon landing, though it declared itself the first company to make a “fully successful” soft landing. Houston-based Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus ...