CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — 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.
Higher latitudes on the moon with slopes facing the poles "are not only scientifically interesting but also pose less technical challenges for exploration in comparison with regions closer to the ...
Less than a day after Intuitive Machines landed on the Moon, the company declared an early end to its mission after its Athena spacecraft would up lying sideways on the lunar surface. Athena ...
A private company's second attempt to land on the Moon officially ended Friday after its Athena spaceship came down sideways in a repeat of an off-kilter landing last year. Houston-based Intuitive ...
Asteroid 2024 YR4: Asteroid 2024 YR4 might spare Earth but it poses a threat to Moon. The asteroid that had a good chance of crashing onto Earth, may well end up colliding with the moon. NASA has ...
“We got some moon dust on our boots.” Firefly Aerospace is now the second private company to accomplish a lunar landing and the first to land upright. Texas-based Intuitive Machines reached ...
A second American company has landed a spacecraft on the moon in an extraordinary feat once solely the realm of government space agencies like NASA. The landing precedes by just four days the ...
Texas Startup Successfully Lands Spacecraft on Moon Surface Startup’s Blue Ghost lander touches down upright on Sunday Two other companies also have spacecraft headed to the moon ...
Mission accomplished! After a 45-day journey, a lunar lander built in Central Texas became the first commercially built spacecraft to successfully land on the moon. The lander made contact with ...
On March 1, the position of the crescent moon will aid in spotting Mercury, according to Space.com. The easiest way to find Mercury will be to find Venus first—which should be easy, as it’ll ...
This year is an exceptionally rare occasion when Muslims worldwide will gear up to sight the Ramadan moon at the same time. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia along with the Moon Sighting Committees in ...
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A private company launched another lunar lander Wednesday, aiming to get closer to the moon’s south pole ...