It was not until February 22, 2024, that another American-built spacecraft made a soft landing on the Moon. This was the Nova ...

Intuitive Machines looks to park its Athena lunar lander on the moon’s south pole on Thursday on a mission with NASA payloads.

The IM-2 lander is believed to have reached the moon's south pole region, but its precise position and location are unclear.

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.

Unlike NASA’s successful Apollo moon landings that had billions of dollars behind them and ace astronauts at the helm, private companies operate on a limited budget with robotic craft that must ...

Now, Firefly is about to find out if its lunar program is a technical success. Landing on the Moon is risky. In the last decade, the success rate for lunar landing attempts is a little above 50 ...

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

The second moon landing attempt by Texas-based Intuitive Machines has ended much like the first, with its Athena lander ...

Their CP-12 payload will land in the moon’s Schrödinger ... and control system for the 1969 Apollo moon landing. In 1963, 60 percent of US integrated circuit production was going to Draper ...

A private lunar lander carrying a drill, vacuum and other experiments for NASA touched down on the moon Sunday, the latest in a string of companies looking to kickstart business on Earth's ...