Intuitive Machines launches its second moon lander, which will use NASA and commercially developed tools to search for ice in the moon's crust.

Intuitive Machines' latest mission ended early after its lunar lander Athena touched down in a moon crater and fell onto its ...

Intuitive Machines said the Athena had enough power to be able to perform some of the scientific objectives for NASA before its batteries died.

For the second time in two years, a commercial lunar lander built and operated by Intuitive Machines has fallen over on the ...

Intuitive Machines' Athena moon lander is "alive," but it's not yet known what mission objectives can still be met.

Scientists have long sought to determine the age of the moon's South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin, the largest and oldest known ...

Less than a day after Intuitive Machines landed on the Moon, the company declared an early end to its mission after its ...

Intuitive Machines' Athena lander died inside a small crater near the moon's south pole, photos by NASA's Lunar ...

Scientists think there might be ice trapped at the moon’s poles, particularly in permanently shadowed regions, or PSRs. These are craters near the poles that, because of the moon’s tilt ...

Chinese scientists, using lunar soil samples brought back by Chang'e-6, have determined that the Moon's oldest and largest impact crater, the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) Basin, was formed 4.25 billion ...

They include a jumping robot called Micro Nova Hopper or Grace, which is designed to leap and fly across the Moon's surface to reach a large crater that is in permanent shade. The hopper is designed ...

The spacecraft, which attempted a historic landing in rugged terrain near the south pole of the moon on Thursday (March 6), had toppled on its side inside a frigid crater. A photo taken by the ...