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

Firefly Aerospace and Intuitive Machines belong to a group of more than a dozen private companies vying to land lucrative ...

With its vivid turquoise, green and blue waters, it’s no surprise Lake Salda is often promoted as the “Maldives of Turkey.” According to scientists, it’s also the only place on Earth that’s analogous ...

The lunar lander, called Blue Ghost, settled onto the Moon's surface at 2:34 am CST (3:34 am EST; 08:34 UTC). A few dozen ...

A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Intuitive Machines Nova-C lunar lander Athena on the IM-2 mission and the Lockheed Martin-built Lunar Trailblazer satellite for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory li ...

Saturday's mission, which Firefly calls "Message in a Booster," will send the LM 400 satellite technology demonstrator to low Earth orbit (LEO) for Lockheed Martin. It will be the first of up to ...

Two lunar missions had a rough start in recent days, one utterly scuttled by a tipped lander and another jeopardized by a ...

Lift-off: The lunar lander Athena from Intuitive Machines aim to test the ... two years mapping the distribution of water on the surface of the Moon (courtesy: Lockheed Martin Space for Lunar ...

Second lunar lander to reach moon this year Athena's ... Another $89 million paid for a lunar satellite built by Lockheed Martin that was launched on the same Falcon 9 rocket as Athena.