Athena entered lunar orbit just a day after fellow Texas company Firefly Aerospace aced its own lunar landing, with the Blue Ghost lander successfully touching down on the moon at Mare Crisium.

A cargo plane flew the HALO module to the U.S. from Turin, Italy, where it was constructed by the company Thales Alenia Space ...

Blue Origin rockets are launching people to the edge of space, but Jeff Bezos wants the company to compete with SpaceX. It's ...

Intuitive Machines may have crashed its latest moon lander on the lunar surface, but that's not keeping the company down for ...

The Houston-based company’s Athena lander on the IM-2 mission was ... how we’re going to live and work on the lunar surface and prepare us to have humans on Mars.” Local journalism is ...

Intuitive Machines' inaugural lunar lander mission achieved a significant milestone on February 21 as it successfully entered orbit around the moon, setting the stage for an impending landing attempt.

Sunday’s touchdown was a complete success. Intuitive Machines’ newest Athena lander dropped out of lunar orbit as planned. The hourlong descent appeared to go well until the final approach ...

Once the mission was complete, the top portion of the lunar lander would leave the moon, return to lunar orbit, and rendezvous ... “It allows us to tell the Apollo story more broadly,” says ...

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander descended from lunar orbit on autopilot ... “It really does open up a whole new way for us to get more science to space and to the moon,” Fox said.

A US company ... called Commercial Lunar Payload Services, which aims to cut costs and support Artemis, the program designed to return astronauts to the Moon. The golden lander -- about the ...