Firefly Aerospace landed a craft safely last week, a first for a private company. The status of Intuitive Machines’ lander is unknown.

Space-exploration company Intuitive Machines Inc. made its second moon landing Thursday afternoon when the company's uncrewed Nova-C lander, called Athena, reached the lunar surface. Yet the company's ...

Watch live as a private US company attempts to land a spacecraft on the Moon in a historic search for water and ice on ...

Intuitive Machines aimed for a gentle touchdown of its IM-2 Athena lander packed with rovers, a drone and a NASA moon drill. The company is still assessing the landing.

Intuitive Machines' Athena moon lander planned to deploy two small rovers, a rocket-powered "hopper," and use a powerful ...

NASA’s program: The main customer of both missions is NASA under its Commercial Lunar Payload Services program, which hires private companies to take NASA-financed science and technology payloads to ...

The six-legged Athena lander, carrying 11 payloads and scientific instruments, descended over a flat-topped mountain named Mons Mouton, about 100 miles (160 km) from the lunar south pole, and had ...

The moon lander Athena made it to the lunar surface, but its condition was unclear as mission controllers rushed to understand its status.

Intuitive Machines said on Thursday that its robotic Athena lander has landed on the moon's surface but details of the ...

There is a robotic moon landing happening Thursday. If this feels like déjà vu, it's because a separate lunar lander successfully touched down there just five days ago.