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.

MAPP, built by the Colorado company Lunar Outpost, will touch down aboard Intuitive Machines' Athena lander at 12:32 p.m. ET ...

A private lunar lander carrying a drill, vacuum and other equipment for NASA touches down on the Moon, cheered on by staff watching in Texas. It's the latest in a string of companies looking to ...

Email Greg your space questions and he might answer them in the next edition. A lunar eclipse at near totality is seen.(WTOP/Greg Redfern) During March 2025 Venus and the moon are the “stars ...

A private company launched another lunar lander Wednesday (February 26, 2025), aiming to get closer to the moon’s south pole this time with a drone that will hop into a jet-black crater that ...

The Lunar Outpost rover and Grace hopper will also each test out the use of cellular network on the moon as part of a NASA-sponsored experiment spearheaded by Nokia.

Such locations could serve as a resource for lunar explorers in the future. "Understanding where a rover would drive or an astronaut would walk to examine deposits for science and future resource ...

In just a couple of weeks, we’ll have prime-time viewing hours for the first total lunar eclipse anywhere in the world since 2022. Through the year, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, Mercury and Saturn will ...

The company reached the lunar surface in 2024, and now its second lander aims to improve on the feat. Three other spacecraft also hitched a ride on the SpaceX rocket. transcript Onboard a SpaceX ...

SpaceX launch doubleheader recap: Scroll down to review live updates from the Wednesday, Feb. 26, back-to-back liftoffs of two SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets from Cape Canaveral on the IM-2 lunar lander ...

This marks the beginning of a lunar data center ... storage solutions for space missions through NASA’s Perseverance Rover on Mars. The company also offers a design service called Imagine ...

In February 2024, an American spacecraft landed on the moon for the first time in more than 50 years and ushered in a new era of lunar exploration defined by commercial enterprise. The landing ...