Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A robotic lander named Athena has made its final descent to the moon’s surface, marking the second lunar touchdown for a US ...

Watch Intuitive Machines' IM-2 lunar landing live! Houston-based company Intuitive Machines is poised to land its second spacecraft on the moon today (March 6). The lander, a Nova-C vehicle named ...

A privately owned robotic lander named Athena is no longer working after it landed sideways in a crater near the moon's south pole on Thursday afternoon. Officials at the Houston-based Intuitive ...

Athena didn’t crash. But what did happen to it? Hours after the 15-foot-tall robotic spacecraft arrived at the moon’s surface, closer to the lunar south pole than any spacecraft has been, it remained ...

Intuitive Machines successfully launched its IM-2 mission with the Nova-C class lunar lander, Athena, aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9, marking a significant achievement in the company's aerospace endeavors.

HOUSTON - Another historic U.S. robotic moon landing happened Thursday, but whether the lander is sitting upright on the surface remains unclear. The space industry is in its moon era, with dozens of ...

Intuitive Machines, the company behind the first successful private lunar lander *Odysseus*, is preparing for a second lunar landing this week with its "Athena" vehicle at the moon's south pole. The ...

Athena launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday. Manuel Mazzanti / NurPhoto via Getty Images Texas-based company Intuitive Machines is gearing up for a second ...

Early Thursday morning, Athena completed an engine burn that set it on a trajectory out of lunar orbit and toward the surface, Intutive Machines said. The lander then began coasting for about an hour.