After a day of uncertainty following a harrowing moon landing attempt, the company Intuitive Machines sealed the fate of its ...
“This southern pole region is lit by harsh sun angles and limited direct communication with the Earth. This area has been ...
Intuitive Machines announced its second mission to the moon has ended after Athena, its lunar lander, fell 'on her side.' ...
The mission comes four days after another commercial space company, Firefly Aerospace, successfully landed its spacecraft on ...
After hours of uncertainty, officials from the Houston company said there are clues that the spacecraft is on its side, which ...
Intuitive Machines' Athena moon lander is "alive," but it's not yet known what mission objectives can still be met.
Intuitive Machines' Athena could be the second U.S. spacecraft to land on the moon in a week after Firefly Aerospace's Blue ...
A day after a live webcast captured a somber-looking mission control room in the minutes surrounding its planned Thursday ...
Despite some connection delays postlanding, the lunar lander Athena is officially set to study what lies beneath the moon’s ...
The IM-2 was rocketed by SpaceX Falcon 9 in late February and orbited the Moon 39 times before landing on Thursday.
Athena, made by Intuitive Machines, traveled 700,000 kilometers (435,000 miles), which is nearly double the distance between the Earth and moon, according to Intuitive Machines’ Josh Marshall.