Grace isn't the only robot that caught a ride to the lunar surface on Athena. The lander is also carrying a small rover called MAPP (Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform), which was built by the ...

Scientists have long sought to determine the age of the moon's South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin, the largest and oldest known ...

Athena will land in the moon's Mons Mouton region at 12:32 p.m. EST.

DEI order, the space agency has removed a promise to send the "the first woman, first person of color" to walk on the moon ...

Intuitive Machines said it was uncertain whether its Athena lander was upright near the moon’s south pole — standing 15 feet (4.7 meters) tall — or lying sideways like its first spacecraft from a year ...

Intuitive Machine's second mission to the moon, IM-2, is set to launch Wednesday evening from KSC. Onboard is NASA science.

Intuitive Machines' latest mission ended early after its lunar lander Athena touched down in a moon crater and fell onto its side.

A robotic moon lander known as Athena is scheduled to launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center with a mission to explore the moon’s south pole. The same rocket will also ...

Intuitive Machines launches its second moon lander, which will use NASA and commercially developed tools to search for ice in the moon's crust.

Chandrayaan-3's ChaSTE provided crucial temperature data from the Moon's high-latitude regions, enhancing the understanding ...

Intuitive Machines says its Athena lunar lander was unable to recharge its batteries while resting on its side, bringing the ...

In a paper published in National Science Review, a research team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences investigated impact ...