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

Intuitive Machines says its Athena lunar lander was unable to recharge its batteries while resting on its side, bringing the ...

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 ...

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 South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported that the proposed lunar radio telescope array would feature 7,200 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Based on research on lunar samples retrieved by the Chang'e-6 mission, a team of Chinese scientists confirmed that the oldest ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A private lunar lander is no longer working after landing sideways in a crater near the moon’s ...

Firefly Aerospace’s successful moon lander has yielded a trove of data that scientists will pore over for years.