After a day of uncertainty following a harrowing moon landing attempt, the company Intuitive Machines sealed the fate of its latest lunar probe Athena. The spacecraft, which attempted a historic ...

Intuitive Machines' Athena lander died inside a small crater near the moon's south pole, photos by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter show.

The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, conducted a series of experiments. It drilled three feet into the lunar soil, took X-ray images of the magnetic bubble that surrounds and protects Earth ...

When the moon falls into Earth's shadow Thursday night into Friday (March 13-14), observers will be treated to views of a "blood moon" total lunar eclipse ... the temperature inside the spacecraft ...

The total lunar eclipse on March 13-14 will plunge moon ... During an eclipse, the temperature inside the spacecraft can drop to 23 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 5 degrees Celsius), but for the ...

The lander is inside a crater at the center ... about 100 miles (160 kilometers) from the lunar south pole. Then, three days later, the probe snapped another pic, which provided a closer look ...

This aims to map sources of water on the Moon to shed light on the lunar ... itself inside out after it solidified from a primordial magma ... Could Fiber Optic Cable Help Scientists Probe the ...

The next phase of the Commercial Lunar Payload Services ... including inside a permanently shadowed crater that may contain water ice. The Athena probe comes equipped with several instruments ...