Several issues conspired to bring Athena down, including tough lighting conditions near the moon's south pole.

Intuitive also has more missions as part of its ongoing CLPS program contracts. Its third mission, IM-3, will deliver ...

If all goes according to plan, Resilience will touch down on June 5 within Mare Frigoris ("Sea of Cold"), a basaltic plain in ...

Athena's fall prevented those two other spacecraft from deploying onto the lunar surface. IM-2 followed on the heels of IM-1, a CLPS mission that put Intuitive Machines' Odysseus spacecraft on the ...