The Houston-based company is poised to land its Athena spacecraft on the moon at 12:30 p.m. ET. The landing site closer to the lunar south pole than any human or vehicle has traveled before.

Blue Ghost successfully landed on the moon on Sunday (March 2), touching down in Mare Crisium ("Sea of Crises") — a large impact basin about 345 miles (555 kilometers) wide. The spacecraft sits near a ...

Commercial company Intuitive Machines is attempting to land a probe near the lunar south pole. If successful, it will be the ...

Intuitive Machines announced that its 15-foot-tall robot Athena is expected to land on the moon’s south pole around 12:30 p.m ...

A private company will attempt to complete a quick one-two punch at the moon’s face today as Intuitive Machines looks to ...

Houston-based Intuitive Machines, which last year became the first private-sector company to soft-land a vehicle on the moon, said that its Athena spacecraft is on track to touch down around 11:30 a.m ...

Intuitive Machines' Athena moon lander will deploy two small rovers, a rocket-powered "hopper," and use a powerful drill to ...

On March 3, NASA and the Italian Space Agency made a historic leap in space exploration with their Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE). For the first time, this technology demonstrated the ability ...

Intuitive Machines sent final commands to its uncrewed Athena spacecraft on Thursday as it closed in on a landing spot near ...

Athena is targeting highland terrain about 100 miles (160 kilometers) from the moon's south pole, where it will deploy three ...