The Athena lander, built by Texas-based company Intuitive Machines, descended to the lunar surface but the orientation of the ...

Watch live as a private US company attempts to land a spacecraft on the Moon in a historic search for water and ice on ...

Athena has landed on the moon, but the overall status of the spacecraft remains unclear. The mission’s plans include studies ...

The moon lander Athena made it to the lunar surface, but its condition was unclear as mission controllers rushed to ...

Intuitive Machines aimed for a gentle touchdown of its IM-2 Athena lander packed with rovers, a drone and a NASA moon drill. The company is still assessing the landing.

A privately owned lunar lander has touched down near the moon's south pole. But flight controllers in Texas cannot confirm ...

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

Athena is on the moon and but mission controllers are still ... Odysseus was not able to conduct much of the scientific work it had been sent to do. By coincidence, a lunar lander sent by JAXA, the ...

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

The commercially and privately constructed Athena spacecraft landed on the moon Thursday, the second such device to do so in ...

Commercial company Intuitive Machines has put its second probe on the moon, but it was not immediately clear if the vehicle ...