Intuitive Machines' Athena moon lander is "alive," but it's not yet known what mission objectives can still be met.
Intuitive Machines launches its second moon lander, which will use NASA and commercially developed tools to search for ice in the moon's crust.
The Athena lander, built by Texas-based company Intuitive Machines, descended to the lunar surface but the orientation of the ...
A private US company says it has landed a spacecraft close to the Moon's South Pole but fears the machine is not upright. The ...
"I think we can agree, particularly today, that landing on the moon is extremely hard," Nicola Fox, who leads NASA's Science ...
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 ...
The moon lander Athena made it to the lunar surface, but its condition and exact location remain unclear, Intuitive Machines and NASA confirmed.
The Houston-based company put its Athena spacecraft on the moon just after 12:30 p.m. ET. The landing site is closer to the lunar south pole than any human or vehicle has traveled before.
Houston-based Intuitive Machines, which last year became the first private-sector company to soft-land a vehicle on the moon, said that its Athena spacecraft was expected to touch down around 11:31 ...