The original assumption was that commercial lunar landings would be, to use a basketball term, “shots on goal” with some of them failing.

The Intuitive Machines Athena lander mission to the moon has officially been declared "dead" after landing on its side in a ...

Intuitive Machines, a Houston company aiming to repeat a 2024 landing, said its spacecraft, Athena, has power and is communicating but may not be upright. It is unclear how that might impact the ...

The PDI burn lasted for 11 minutes before a pitch-over maneuver successfully brought the lander near the landing site. Meanwhile, Athena took pictures autonomously as part of its navigation to ...

A total lunar eclipse will be viewable in all of the lower 48 states on the night of Thursday, March 13, into Friday, March 14. A total lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth is positioned between ...

(NEXSTAR) – A treat awaits sky gazers in the month of March – the moon will take on a deep, reddish hue as it slips into the Earth’s shadow during a total lunar eclipse. The celestial ...

The commercial landers are also seen as scouts for astronauts who are scheduled to follow later this decade under NASA’s Artemis program, the successor to Apollo. NASA officials said before the ...

That's where NASA is targeting for its first landing by astronauts since the 1960s and 1970s Apollo program, no earlier than 2027. The craters are believed to hold tons of frozen water that could ...

Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. Each time a robotic explorer launches from Earth, it ...

There might not be any gravity on the Moon, but shares of Intuitive Machines (LUNR) are being crushed by it after its second failed lunar landing. The Athena robotic lander touched down on the ...

Houston-based Intuitive Machines, which last year became the first private-sector company to soft-land a vehicle on the moon, said that its Athena spacecraft was expected to touch down around 11: ...

For the second time in less than a week, an uncrewed American lunar lander has touched down on the surface of Earth's celestial neighbor as NASA races to get humans back to the moon in the years ...