Intuitive Machines' Athena moon lander is giving us some incredible views from lunar orbit ahead of its March 6 touchdown attempt.

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 ...

A lunar lander built by Intuitive Machines is scheduled to descend to the moon’s surface today, potentially marking the ...

Blue Ghost's landing site is near a volcanic feature called Mons Latreille on the moon's Earth-facing side. The region is located within Mare Crisium, a 300-mile-wide basin on the moon's near side ...

“We’re in the vicinity of the intended landing site,” said Steve ... It aimed to orbit the moon and help scientists develop a detailed water map of the lunar surface. The robotic orbiter ...

The mission, aptly named “Ghost Riders in the Sky,” touched down in Mare Crisium, a large impact site filled with basaltic lava on the Moon. Blue Ghost pulled off a precision landing ...

It was the first successful commercial moon landing. The lander delivered 10 NASA science and delivery payloads to the Mare Crisium basin, which is a lava-flooded region on the near side of the ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost probe is expected to land no earlier than Sunday, March 2, 2025 in the wee hours before dawn.

What Blue Ghost will do on the moon If all goes well, Firefly's mission will operate for about 14 Earth days, which is a full lunar day. The landing site, Mare Crisium, is in the northeast ...

Flying above the far side of the moon in a circular 62-mile-high orbit, the squat lander fired its main engine at 2:31 a.m. EST, kicking off a white-knuckle 63-minute descent to the landing site ...

WASHINGTON, March 6 (Reuters) - The second moon landing by Intuitive Machines ... touched down at a site some 100 miles (160 km) from the lunar south pole after launching atop a SpaceX rocket ...

An American company became the first private firm to perform a perfect moon landing early Sunday ... in the two weeks of sunlight at the landing site. “We landed at the beginning of the lunar ...