The Blue Ghost spacecraft, named for a species of firefly, took eclipse chasing to new heights. Not only did it see the Earth block the Sun from an unexplored location on the Moon, but the lander fell ...

Astronomy contributor and lunar expert Robert Reeves looks back on a Texas-sized achievement in Moon exploration.

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

SpaceX launched another batch of Starlink satellites into orbit, a little more than 12 hours after the private company teamed ...

While Earthlings were watching the moon turn blood red during Friday morning’s lunar eclipse, a robotic lander on the moon ...

The Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform (MAPP) rover aboard the toppled Intuitive Machines Athena lunar lander survived ...

Intuitive Machines' latest mission ended early after its lunar lander Athena touched down in a moon crater and fell onto its ...

Firefly Aerospace landed a craft safely last week, a first for a private company. But Intuitive Machines’ mission ended when its lander wound up on its side in a crater.

A photo confirms that Athena landed on its side and meets the same fate as Odysseus, which also failed to land correctly on ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses. The latest casualty ...

Officials at Houston-based Intuitive Machines announced Friday morning that its robotic lander, Athena, was no longer working after it accidentally landed sideways in a crater near the moon's south ...

The first moon landing attempt by Intuitive Machines almost exactly a ... altimeter used to judge its distance from the ground - broke a lander leg and caused the craft to topple over, dooming many of ...