Moon exploration is undergoing a potentially transformative moment. Over the course of six weeks, three different lunar ...
If all goes according to plan, the Athena lander will touch down near the moon's south pole on or around March 6.
Intuitive Machines out of Texas is sending a second lunar lander, this time Athena, to the moon, where it will drill for water, ice and other gases.
Known as Athena, the IM-2 spacecraft from Intuitive Machines was launched eight days ago by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Sharing the ride to space were three other spacecraft: a moon-bound NASA ...
With the launch of Intuitive Machines' Athena spacecraft atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket last night (Feb. 27), three lunar landers are currently on their way to the moon. Such a surge of exploration has ...
After hours of uncertainty, officials from the Houston company said there are clues that the spacecraft is on its side, which ...
Onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is Athena, Intuitive Machine’s second ... It will also be carrying one of the Nokia cellphone antennas. The plan is to fly into one of the moon’s permanently ...
Intuitive Machines' second moon lander was launched on Wednesday atop a SpaceX rocket, setting off for the latest private U.S. moonshot one year after the company's first attempt ended early with a ...
(Bright specks visible near the rocket stage may be ... craft ever to do so. But Athena won't be the second to pull off the feat, if all goes according to plan.