A drill to search for ice. Also aboard Athena is PRIME-1, a NASA instrument carrying a drill to search for ice and other ...

Intuitive Machines' Athena moon lander is giving us some incredible views from lunar orbit ahead of its March 6 touchdown ...

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

The destination is Mons Mouton, one of NASA 's potential landing locations for its Artemis astronauts. Intuitive Machines ' ...

Japanese startup ispace on Tuesday set a June 6 target touchdown date for its moon lander, following the success of its ...

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 ...

Blue Ghost aced its touchdown try early this morning (March 2), becoming just the second private spacecraft ever to soft-land ...

The Blue Ghost touchdown kicks off two weeks of around-the-clock research by NASA science and technology payloads.

Intuitive Machines' second lunar lander, named Athena, snapped some amazing shots of its home planet shortly after launching ...

More than fifty years passed between the last Apollo mission and the United States' return to the lunar surface, when the ...

Intuitive Machines' Athena could be the second U.S. spacecraft to land on the moon in a week after Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost made it Sunday.

Landing on the moon is hard, but Intuitive Machines will try for a gentle touchdown of its IM-2 Athena lander packed with rovers, a drone and a NASA moon drill.