A spacecraft built in Cedar Park will try to land on the moon’s surface about 2:30 ... A joint Firefly and NASA livestream of the landing will begin at 1:20 a.m., about 75 minutes before Blue ...

The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, conducted a series of experiments. It drilled three feet into the lunar soil, took X-ray images of the magnetic bubble that surrounds and protects Earth ...

Hopefully you had a smooth LANDING with this puzzle, in spite of its name. This was a fun puzzle to put together. Thanks for ...

For decades, scientists have pieced together the moon’s history using samples from its near side, collected during NASA’s Apollo missions. But then in May 2024, China’s Chang’e 6 mission touched down ...

The first private lunar lander to pull off a fully successful Moon mission has fallen silent. Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander fell silent at the weekend, wrapping up two weeks of science ...

It’s lights out for the first private lunar lander to pull off a fully successful moon mission. Firefly Aerospace’s Blue ...

Intuitive Machines said it was uncertain whether its Athena lander was upright near the Moon’s south pole — standing 15 feet ...

Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. No special glasses are needed to view the lunar eclipse, and one can directly look at the moon without hesitation. On the other hand, proper ...

While Odysseus was lauded in 2024 for being the first commercial landing on the moon, Firefly’s Blue Ghost — which landed upright — has now carried out “the first fully successful ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses. The latest casualty came this week after Intuitive Machines put another lander sideways on ...

A Colorado-built moon rover set to notch up a number of historic firsts will not be completing its mission near the Lunar ...

The successful soft landing on the moon was expertly planned and became ... Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. To me running through scenarios is one of the obvious keys to a successful ...