The Athena lander, built by Texas-based company Intuitive Machines, descended to the lunar surface but the orientation of the ...

Intuitive Machines, a Houston company aiming to repeat a 2024 landing, said its spacecraft, Athena, has power and is communicating but may not be upright. It is unclear how that might impact the ...

The latest attempt to land on the Moon went at least partially awry on 6 March, when an ice-seeking spacecraft named Athena ...

The Lunar Trailblazer satellite will be sent on a two-year mission to find and map water on the Moon's surface. Find out more ...

The second struggling spacecraft is a NASA mission, Lunar Trailblazer. It aimed to orbit the moon and help scientists develop a detailed water map of the lunar surface. The robotic orbiter was part of ...

A robotic lander named Athena is expected to make its final descent to the moon’s south pole on Thursday, making it the second lunar touchdown for a private U.S. company just this week. NASA confirmed ...

A dishwasher-sized NASA satellite was launched into space from Florida on Wednesday to identify where water - a precious ...

The Lunar Thermal Mapper, or LTM, will map and measure the lunar surface temperature. The High-resolution Volatiles and Minerals Moon Mapper, or HVM3, will look at the moon's surface for a ...

On Wednesday 26 February, a thermal imaging camera built by researchers at the University of Oxford's Department of Physics ...

Intuitive Machines’ new lander, named Athena, is headed for the Mons Mouton region of the Moon. Researchers think there is ...

Intuitive Machines designed and will operate the Athena lunar lander on the company's second voyage to the moon's south pole ...

A privately built spacecraft sent to the moon does not appear to be upright on the surface, says the US company that operates ...