If all goes according to plan, the Athena lander will touch down near the moon's south pole on or around March 6.

Lunar Trailblazer, an orbiter that shared a launch on Wednesday with the commercial Athena lander, will help scientists ...

NASA is paying $62 million to Intuitive Machines to get its drill and other experiments to the moon. The company, in turn, sold space on the lander to others. It also opened up the Falcon rocket to ...

Grace isn't the only robot that caught a ride to the lunar surface on Athena. The lander is also carrying a small rover ...

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 ...

The company reached the lunar surface in 2024, and now its second lander aims to improve on the feat. Three other spacecraft ...

The Blue Ghost touchdown kicks off two weeks of around-the-clock research by NASA science and technology payloads.

It’s hitching a ride to the moon to find out whether robots could someday repair spaceships like the one carrying it.

Furthermore, there are no GPS systems on the moon to help guide a craft to its landing spot. Blue Ghost shared a ride on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Japanese company ispace, which will try ...

In February 2024, an American spacecraft landed on the moon for the first ... of three spacecraft sharing a ride to space with Athena on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. About 48 minutes after launch ...

It also opened up the Falcon rocket to ride-sharing. Tagalongs included NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer satellite, which will fly separately to the moon over the next several months before entering ...