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

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

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 ...

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

The Houston-based company is poised to land its Athena spacecraft on the moon at 12:30 p.m. ET. The landing site closer to the lunar south pole than any human or vehicle has traveled before.

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 ...

A rundown on the moon’s winners and losers: The Soviet Union’s Luna 9 successfully touches down on the moon in 1966, after its predecessors crash or miss the moon altogether. The U.S. follows ...

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

What is the moon phase today? Today, Feb. 13, 2025, the moon is 15 days old and is in the Full Moon phase of its lunar cycle. It is 99% illuminated. Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the ...

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

The phenomenon of a Full Moon arises when our planet, Earth, is precisely sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon. This alignment ensures the entire side of the Moon that faces us gleams under ...