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 ...

A Rough Touchdown With Unexpected Success Launched aboard the Odysseus lander from Intuitive Machines, the ROLSES-1 (Radio ...

The second-ever commercial landing on the moon comes amid a flurry of lunar exploration activity that will see around a dozen missions this year alone ...

The moon lander Athena made it to the lunar surface, but its condition and exact location remain unclear, Intuitive Machines and NASA confirmed.

Based on a reading from an inertial measurement unit inside the vehicle, most likely Athena is lying on its side. This is the same fate Odysseus met last year, when it skidded into the Moon, broke a ...

The Odysseus spacecraft made a rough landing on the moon last year, toppling over and rendering much of its equipment unusable, but an onboard NASA radio telescope called ROLSES-1  was able to make so ...

Intuitive Machines’ robotic spacecraft landed in a crater 250 meters from its intended landing site on the moon and wound up on its side, the company said Friday, ending the company’s second ...

After hours of uncertainty, officials from the Houston company said there are clues that the spacecraft is on its side, which could limit the mission’s scientific accomplishments.

The Athena spacecraft appears to be ’oriented somewhat’ on its side, just like the previous Odysseus lander.

Shares of Intuitive Machines ( LUNR 9.10%) fell this week. The company's stock plunged 18.9% as of 3:20 p.m. ET on Friday, and was down as much as 22.3% earlier in the week. The steep decline comes ...

The mission came a year after the company’s Odysseus spacecraft became the first U.S. vehicle to reach the lunar surface since the end of the Apollo era in 1972. But that spacecraft also tumbled ...