Blue Ghost successfully landed on the moon on Sunday (March 2), touching down in Mare Crisium ("Sea of Crises") — a large ...

Houston-based Intuitive Machines, which last year became the first private-sector company to soft-land a vehicle on the moon, said that its Athena spacecraft is on track to touch down around 11:30 a.m ...

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

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NASA and the Italian Space Agency say they have broken the record for the farthest detection of Earth-based navigation signals from 243,000 miles away in space .

The arrivals of two lunar landers on the moon this week bodes well for a Big Island company’s plan to set up a permanent ...

Intuitive Machines' Athena moon lander will deploy two small rovers, a rocket-powered "hopper," and use a powerful drill to ...

A NASA astronaut snapped a rare picture of a lightning bolt. Yes, they really do bend that way. And if you have 500 TV ...

Blue Ghost runs on solar power, the reason it will only operate for two weeks. Shortly after the sun sets at its location, the temperature will drop rapidly (the moon is essentially airless), ...

Intuitive Machines' Athena could be the second U.S. spacecraft to land on the moon in a week after Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost made it Sunday.

It was not until February 22, 2024, that another American-built spacecraft made a soft landing on the Moon. This was the Nova-C Odysseus lander built by Intuitive Machines. It landed, toppled over, ...