Colorado-based company Lunar Outpost's MAPP rover is poised to land today (March 6) near the lunar south pole aboard the ...

On Jan. 15, a commercial lunar lander launched from Earth carrying the United States' first robotic rover designed to explore ...

The Athena lander currently en-route to the Moon carries with it the Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform (MAPP) made by ...

The mission, named Ghost Riders in the Sky, launched on Jan. 15 from NASA's Kennedy Space ... Along with Blue Ghost, NASA launched the Tenacious lunar rover from Japanese company ispace.

Intuitive Machines' private lunar lander Athena is no longer working after missing its mark by more than 800 feet near the ...

March 4 (UPI) -- Japanese lunar exploration company ispace announced Tuesday it will aim to place a lander on the moon on ...

Intuitive Machines' second lunar lander, named Athena, landed near the moon's south pole today (March 6), but the probe's ...

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 ...

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 ...

Intuitive Machines' Athena lander is scheduled to touch down near the moon's south pole today (March 6). Here's how to watch ...

Watch it live The four-wheeled rover measures 17.7 by 15 by 15.7 inches (45 by 38 by 40 centimeters) and is designed to provide critical data on the navigability of the lunar environment to guide ...