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 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 ...

are too low to provide adequate source of excitation for the visibility of daytime luminescence of the lunar surface; for night-time events it is adequate. Whether or not this is so at the ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Honeybee Robotics' Lunar PlanetVac instrument shown at the end of Blue Ghost’s surface access arm. Firefly Aerospace Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander has been parked on the Moon for a little over a ...

Ground controllers for the NASA/Caltech-led mission, called Lunar Trailblazer, have valiantly tried to reestablish communications with the small satellite over the last week, but the probe is ...