The landing site was significantly hotter ... “[The aim is] to obtain a comprehensive understanding and distribution of water ice on the moon.” The PopSci team has tested hundreds of products ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A private lunar lander is no longer working after landing sideways in a crater near the moon’s south pole and its mission is over, officials said Friday. The news came less than ...

The moon lander Athena made it to the lunar surface, but its condition and exact location remain unclear, Intuitive Machines and NASA confirmed.

A private US company says it has landed a spacecraft close to the Moon's South Pole but fears the machine is not upright. The Athena spacecraft is communicating with Earth, but is not in the "correct ...

Intuitive Machines got its Athena lunar lander on the moon’s south pole Thursday on a mission with NASA payloads, but tipped ...

Grace isn't the only robot that caught a ride to the lunar surface on Athena. The lander is also carrying a small rover called MAPP (Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform), which was built by the ...

the six-legged craft aims to touch down at a site in the moon’s south polar region, then spend a week looking for the ...

Athena is expected to land on Mons Mouton ... a small robot designed to search the moon for water. But an essential part of Athena is NASA’s PRIME-1 experiment, which includes a drill that ...

A landing leg broke ... in the solar system. The water molecules presumably were delivered over billions of years by comet impacts and interactions between moon dust and the electrically charged ...

Athena will land in the moon's Mons Mouton region at 12:32 p.m. EST.