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

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

Intuitive Machines said on Thursday that its robotic Athena lander has landed on the moon's surface but details of 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 ...

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

Intuitive Machines announced that its 15-foot-tall robotic spacecraft Athena is expected to land near the moon’s south pole ...

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 made it to the moon last year, but tumbled over. This time it aims to stick the landing and deliver NASA cargo closer to the lunar south pole than any other mission.

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