The Athena lander will not be able to recharge its batteries due to the orientation of its solar panels.
Athena got to the lunar surface Thursday afternoon, but the spacecraft's exact position is not yet clear.
The lunar lander is a pinprick in this sweeping image taken from lunar orbit.
Blue Ghost not only aced its touchdown, it filmed a breathtaking video in the process.
The lander will spend the next two weeks exploring the site of an ancient impact on the Moon.
After 45 days, Firefly Aerospace's lander is preparing for its big moment, and you can watch it live right here.
The two spacecraft were designed under low budgets, and the status of both is already in doubt.
A SpaceX Falcon 9, carrying the SPHEREx and PUNCH missions, is scheduled to lift off on Tuesday, March 4 at 10:09 p.m. ET.
The Falcon 9 rocket, packed with exploratory payloads, is scheduled to blast off at 7:17 p.m. ET on Wednesday, February 26. Watch it live right here.
The maneuver brings Firefly's lunar lander one step closer to its planned March 2 landing.
The Lunar Trailblazer will leverage gravity as it prepares to get snagged by the Moon for orbit.
The first-of-its-kind lunar explorer will search for water ice, as it bounces in and out of craters.
Blue Ghost fired its engines to escape Earth's gravitational tug and begin its journey to the Moon.
The company cited "revisions to the Artemis program" as the reason behind the pending 400 job cuts.
The Apollo Moon rock had been sitting in the Oval Office for the past four years before Trump's redesign.
The Blue Ghost lander had an exciting start to its mission, bidding farewell to its home planet in style.
A tiny red Swedish-style cottage is set to become the Moon’s first "building," part of an ambitious art project now en route to the lunar north pole.
A total of 25 sites are listed on the watch list and face a number of threats, from war to tourism.
A Falcon 9 rocket delivered the two landers to space earlier this morning, kickstarting a pair of exciting private Moon missions.
A year of discovery awaits, with missions poised to reveal new insights about our home planet, solar system, galaxy, and beyond.
