American company Intuitive Machines attempted its second lunar landing yesterday, aiming to bring its Athena spacecraft down in the Mons Mouton region near the moon’s south pole. The lander did ...

Athena didn’t crash. But what did happen to it? Hours after the 15-foot-tall robotic spacecraft arrived at the moon’s surface, closer to the lunar south pole than any spacecraft has been, it ...

A privately owned lunar lander touched down on the moon with a drill, a drone and rovers for NASA and other customers Thursday but quickly ran into trouble and may have fallen over. Intuitive ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A private lunar lander is no longer working after landing sideways in a crater near the moon’s south pole and its mission is over, officials said Friday. The news came ...

The lander, called Athena, is a Nova-C class lunar lander and carries a drill and mass spectrometer capable of boring into the moon's soil to search for highly valued water ice. Such ice holds ...

On Thursday, the Nova-C lander named Athena by Intuitive Machines landed in a different region near the lunar south pole known as Mons Mouton, which is also a landing site candidate for NASA's ...

A private lunar lander carrying a drill, vacuum and other experiments for NASA touched down on the moon today, the latest in a string of companies looking to kickstart business on Earth's ...

USA TODAY reached out to NASA on Friday but has not received a response. Intuitive Machines' original lunar lander, Odysseus, also toppled onto its side after coming in hot and fast during a moon ...

After becoming the first private company to touch down on the lunar surface last year, Intuitive Machines is gearing up for a second Moon landing near the satellite’s south pole. Hopefully this ...