There was a watch party at Columbia headquarters in Portland, with hundreds of eyes glazed to projectors awaiting the landing. Just before 10 a.m., the lander, Athena, finally reached the moon ...

Intuitive Machines, an American space company, launched its lunar lander Athena to the moon in late February, but the craft had a rough touchdown, landing in a crater and flipping over on its side.

Its main mission will be to hunt for lunar ice, a crucial resource needed by future moon explorers. Unfortunately, as with the first Intuitive Machines landing attempt, the Athena proved to be an ...

But after traveling more than a million kilometers through space, the spacecraft came to rest inside a crater, 250 meters from its intended target -- once again landing ... to the Moon and ...

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 24 hours after the ...

While Odysseus was lauded in 2024 for being the first commercial landing on the moon, Firefly’s Blue Ghost — which landed upright — has now carried out “the first fully successful ...

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 ...

Intuitive Machines' original lunar lander, Odysseus, also toppled onto its side after coming in hot and fast during a moon landing in February of last year. Odysseus' faulty laser altimeter ...

Intuitive Machines' IM-2 Athena lander ended up on its side on the moon, forcing a premature end to a mission packed with rovers and NASA science. Amanda Kooser Freelance writer Amanda C.