This orientation prevented the lander's solar panels from capturing enough sunlight, and Intuitive Machines declared Athena ...

The number of known moons in our Solar System has been rising for centuries, but astronomers say it has probably peaked – for ...

The sheer number of objects suggests scientists will soon have to grapple with what counts as a moon versus what’s just a ...

"Athena continues to be in excellent health and is expected to send lunar orbit selfies over the next two days before a ...

The moon lander Athena made it to the lunar surface, but its condition and exact location remain unclear, Intuitive Machines ...

The tri-state area is being treated to a full lunar eclipse early tomorrow. If you manage to be awake between 2:26 a.m. and 3 ...

A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.

While the car-sized spacecraft flew around the Mars system, flight controllers on Earth temporarily lost communication with ...

The discovery points to what astronomers have thought for decades, that Saturn's rings were caused by a massive collision ...

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

The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target. During its brief rendezvous with the Red Planet, Hera caught a glimpse of the ...

A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...