Athena will land in the moon's Mons Mouton region at 12:32 p.m. EST.

We tend to think of the moon as little more than a barren rock, but it’s very, very dusty. However, this dust is a little ...

Blue Ghost aced its touchdown try early this morning (March 2), becoming just the second private spacecraft ever to soft-land on the moon. The lander hauled 10 science experiments to the lunar surface ...

Today, a new golden age of lunar exploration ... Chang’e 4 in 2018 became the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the Moon’s farside. And with Chang’e 5 in 2020 and Chang’e 6 ...

A private US company says it has landed a spacecraft close to the Moon's South Pole but fears the machine is not upright. The Athena spacecraft is communicating with Earth, but is not in the "correct ...

If all goes well, the probe will spend two weeks studying the lunar surface, but first it has to land safely. Read on for the exact timing of Blue Ghost's moon landing and what it will do on the ...

Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Concept art of a crewed lunar base. Credit: ESA – P. Carril Right now, the remains of three private spacecraft rest on the moon ...

A four-legged robot from Texas landed squarely on the Moon on 2 March, becoming the first commercial spacecraft to execute a lunar landing without falling over or crashing. The lander, known as ...

A day on the moon lasts around fourteen Earth days, and during this time the Blue Ghost spacecraft will use solar ... start of surface operations in its new home. Our Ghost Riders have already ...

Texas-based Intuitive Machines reached the moon last year, but its spacecraft named Odysseus tipped over onto its side as it touched down. Odysseus survived, despite the rocky landing, and carried ...

Blue Ghost was set to be joined on the moon’s surface by another spacecraft, the Athena lander from Intuitive Machines ... which gradually cooled off by releasing its internal heat into space.” The ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses. The latest casualty came this week after Intuitive Machines put another lander sideways on the ...