After a shaky Moon landing last year, Intuitive Machines is working to determine if this mission will meet a similar fate.

A privately owned lunar lander touched down on the moon Thursday, but as the minutes dragged on, flight controllers could not ...

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

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 ...

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.

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

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’s Nova-C lander reached the moon Thursday but its orientation on the lunar surface was unknown as of Noon ...