A private moon mission has launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida, carrying the Athena lunar lander. Athena will search for water in a permanently shadowed lunar crater.

The IM-2 mission lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 7:16 p.m. ET, February 26, ...

A US company is aiming for its second lunar touchdown after a lander carrying a suite of unique experiments successfully ...

A SpaceX launch Wednesday night sent both a lander and an orbiter on their way to the moon, both on the hunt for ice.

The rocket carried a lunar lander named Athena which will reach the Moon in about a week. Once there, it will measure gases ...

After "Odysseus" tipped over on landing on the moon, Intuitive Machines has sent another probe. "Athena" is now set to search ...

Now, Firefly is about to find out if its lunar program is a technical success. Landing on the Moon is risky. In the last decade, the success rate for lunar landing attempts is a little above 50 ...

Architecture firm BIG's design for a lunar data storage device is on its way to the moon as part of a lunar landing mission.

"This is not the situation that is conducive to expanding our leadership in human spaceflight": U.S. Rep. George Whitesides, D-California.

In February 2024, Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus mission became the first US mission to make a soft landing on the Moon since Apollo 17 and the first private craft to do so. After a few hiccups during ...

After three days of delays, SpaceX managed a Starlink launch from Cape Canaveral completing two launches on the Space Coast ...