After launching atop a SpaceX rocket on Feb. 26 from Florida, the six-legged Athena lander has flown a winding path to the moon some 238,000 miles (383,000 km) away from Earth, where it will attempt ...

Ice may be present a few centimeters below the moon's surface in more areas of the lunar polar regions than was previously ...

Could the Moon be hiding more ice than we thought? New data from India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission suggests just that.

Athena is scheduled for touchdown on Thursday at 12:32 p.m. ET and hopes to succeed where its predecessor faltered.

A lunar lander designed by Intuitive Machine is landing Thursday on the moon, where it will attempt to establish the first ...

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.

A robotic lander named Athena is poised to make its final descent to the moon’s surface, potentially marking the second lunar ...