It wasn't a picture-perfect landing, however. While Athena is sending data home to Earth and generating power on the lunar surface, the spacecraft does not seem to have landed fully upright as ...

The Athena probe is designed to stay put once it lands, but it's carrying a number of little rovers that will take a look around. One, called Grace, will hop across the lunar surface using a small ...

The Athena probe is designed to stay put once it lands, but it's carrying a number of little rovers designed to take a look around. One, called Grace, will hop across the lunar surface using a ...

The probe was heading for an asteroid to scout ... making it the “southernmost lunar landing and surface operations ever achieved,” according to the company. Engineered by Colossal Biosciences ...

"We don't believe we're in the correct attitude (orientation) on the surface of ... orbiter known as the Lunar Trailblazer, a commercial deep space asteroid prospecting probe named Odin, and ...

This handout photograph taken and released by Firefly Aerospace, March 14, 2025, shows a total lunar eclipse from the Moon's surface captured by Firefly's Blue Ghost Mission 1 lunar lander.

We tend to think of the moon as a cold, dusty rock, but in fact, its surface can get pretty hot during a lunar day. How hot? It turns out that the answer can vary dramatically over a very short ...

the Blue Ghost lander experienced one lunar day. During the course of that day, it captured several images and videos. It imaged a total solar eclipse from the surface of the moon and also took ...

Commercial company Intuitive Machines has landed its second probe ... lunar acceleration," mission director Tim Crain told the Intuitive Machines team in mission control. "So we're on the surface ...