Intuitive Machines, a Houston company aiming to repeat a 2024 landing, said its spacecraft, Athena, has power and is communicating but may not be upright. It is unclear how that might impact the ...

A privately owned lunar lander has touched down near the moon's south pole. But flight controllers in Texas fear it may have ...

Another historic U.S. robotic Moon landing happened Thursday, but whether the lander is sitting upright on the surface remains unclear.

Intuitive Machines, a Houston company aiming to repeat a moon landing it accomplished in 2024, said its spacecraft, Athena, did not crash, but mission controllers are working to understand its ...

Among the NASA instruments are the Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1, or PRIME-1, which comprises a drill and mass spectrometer to explore the Moon’s subsurface for traces of water ice. The ...

IM-2 is part of a new wave of private lunar exploration. For example, Firefly Aerospace successfully put its Blue Ghost ...

Intuitive Machines' Athena moon lander planned to deploy two small rovers, a rocket-powered "hopper," and use a powerful ...

Blue Ghost successfully landed on the moon on Sunday (March 2), touching down in Mare Crisium ("Sea of Crises") — a large ...

Commercial company Intuitive Machines is attempting to land a probe near the lunar south pole. If successful, it will be the ...

No, your car can't navigate in space. But perhaps colonies can find their way without dedicated lunar GPS An experimental ...