This orientation prevented the lander's solar panels from capturing enough sunlight, and Intuitive Machines declared Athena ...

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

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

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

We’ve already sent a mission to one of them: NASA’s Europa Clipper program was launched back in October of 2024 and is set to perform a number of fly-bys on the moon that is thought to be one ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...