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 ...

JAXA small lunar landing demonstrator "SLIM ". Watch how it travels to the moon's surface in this animated explainer. Credit: JAXA Judge says dismantling of USAID was unconstitutional Boys growing ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander continues to beam home incredible imagery from the surface of the moon. Firefly Aerospace celebrated the milestone in the update, touting the new age of ...

The lander’s first shot was taken from its top deck, and also includes portions of the X-band antenna (left), Lunar Environment heliospheric X-ray Imager (center), and Lunar Magnetotelluric ...

It's a haunting photo, but at least it has answers: For the second time in as many years, a private Intuitive Machines lunar lander has tipped over on the moon. After a day of uncertainty ...

Houston-based space company Intuitive Machines' Athena lunar lander isn't doing so hot. The lander made its attempt at a landing near the Moon's Mons Mouton, a flat-topped mountain roughly 100 ...

A Texas company's privately owned lunar lander was deemed non-functional after landing off-target sideways in a crater close to the Moon's south pole, the firm said on Friday. The mission to drop ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A private lunar lander is no longer working after landing sideways in a crater near the moon's south pole and its mission is over, officials said Friday. The news came ...

The company included an image taken from the lander, named Athena, looking back towards Earth and the lunar horizon. "With the direction of the sun, the orientation of the solar panels ...