A privately owned lunar lander has touched down on the moon. But flight controllers in Texas cannot confirm its condition or ...

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 ...

The Intuitive Machines Athena lander appears to have touched down on the moon's surface, but the landing didn't go ...

from launch in January to landing on the moon early on Sunday. That was a welcome contrast to the mixed results of the first two missions in NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services Program, or CLPS.

The six-legged Athena lander, carrying 11 payloads and scientific instruments, descended over a flat-topped mountain named Mons Mouton, about 100 miles (160 km) from the lunar south pole, and had ...

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