The six-legged Athena lander, carrying 11 payloads and scientific instruments, descended over a flat-topped mountain named Mons Mouton, about 100 miles (160 km) from the lunar south pole, and had ...

Another historic U.S. robotic Moon landing happened Thursday. If this feels like déjà vu, it's because a separate lunar lander successfully touched down there just five days ago.

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.

Eight days after launch, a second commercially built moon lander, this one built by Houston-based Intuitive Machines, headed ...

Blue Ghost successfully landed on the moon on Sunday (March 2), touching down in Mare Crisium ("Sea of Crises") — a large ...

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

The mission comes four days after another commercial space company, Firefly Aerospace, successfully landed its spacecraft on ...

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 ...

Athena is scheduled for touchdown on Thursday at 12:32 p.m. ET and hopes to succeed where its predecessor faltered.

A lunar lander built by Intuitive Machines is scheduled to descend to the moon’s surface today, potentially marking the ...

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