The original assumption was that commercial lunar landings would be, to use a basketball term, “shots on goal” with some of ...

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

The commercially and privately constructed Athena spacecraft is returning data to NASA scientists on Earth, they announced ...

Intuitive Machines, a Houston company aiming to repeat a 2024 landing, said its spacecraft, Athena, has power and is communicating but may not be upright. It is unclear how that might impact the ...

Firefly Aerospace’s robotic vehicle became the second privately built spacecraft to make a soft landing on the moon. It could soon be joined by two more private lunar landers.

On Sunday (March 2), Blue Ghost — built and operated by the Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace — became just the second ...

The current plan calls for Resilience to land that day at 3:24 p.m. EST (2024 GMT) near the center of Mare Frigoris ("Sea of ...

The second-ever commercial landing on the moon comes amid a flurry of lunar exploration activity that will see around a dozen ...

Recent space exploration news highlights include a second delay for Europe's Ariane 6 launch, Firefly Aerospace's successful ...

March 4 (UPI) -- Japanese lunar exploration company ispace announced Tuesday it will aim to place a lander on the moon on ...

A spacecraft owned and operated by Firefly Aerospace touched down on the Moon early March 2 to begin a two-week science ...

Japanese startup ispace on Tuesday set a June 6 target touchdown date for its moon lander, following the success of its ...