Intuitive Machines' Athena moon lander is "alive," but it's not yet known what mission objectives can still be met.

Blue Ghost conducted the DOI on the far side of the Moon, which caused a communications blackout with Earth. The spacecraft ...

Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar spacecraft landed upright on the Moon–a first for a private company–and released amazing HD video ...

HOUSTON—Intuitive Machines’ Athena Nova-C lander touched down at Mons Mouton in the south pole region of the Moon on March 6, ...

Since entering lunar orbit, the solar-powered lander has been circling the ... about 62 miles above, to attempt a descent. The landing site near a plateau known as Mons Mouton is even further ...

Controllers rushed to turn off some of the lander’s equipment to conserve power while trying to determine ... The company’s ...

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.

Among the NASA instruments are the Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1, or PRIME-1, which comprises a drill and mass spectrometer to explore the Moon’s subsurface for traces of water ice. The ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A privately owned lunar lander touched down on the moon Thursday, but as the minutes dragged on, ...

A second commercially-built moon lander ... that we had asked for in terms of power generation, communications, et cetera." The lander braked into orbit Monday, five days after launch from ...

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