This orientation prevented the lander's solar panels from capturing enough sunlight, and Intuitive Machines declared Athena ...

Astronomy contributor and lunar expert Robert Reeves looks back on a Texas-sized achievement in Moon exploration.

In the Americas alone more than one billion people in 35 countries could bear witness to the total lunar eclipse.

Mission planners had prepared the lander to perform course-correction burns after reaching the moon, but Athena's lunar orbit ...

NASA's Artemis campaign is rapidly advancing the development of Gateway, a space station that will orbit the Moon and serve ...

Intuitive Machines, a Houston company aiming to repeat a 2024 landing, said its spacecraft, Athena, has power and is ...

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured an exciting view of Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander following its recent ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A privately owned lunar lander touched down on the moon with a drill, drone and rovers for NASA and ...

Intuitive Machines, the Houston, Texas aerospace company operating the spacecraft, shared the striking imagery after Athena entered lunar orbit on Monday. The six-legged spacecraft, which got off ...

Athena, the private lunar lander from Intuitive Machines, missed its mark while landing on the moon Thursday and ended up ...

The Startup Pulsar Fusion is proposing a 2 Megawatt nuclear fusion orbital components for 2027. Pulsar has now proceeded to ...

The connection was lost before the Lunar Traiblazer could perform the various small thruster operations necessary to reach its proper orbit to take off from Earth and fly to the moon. However, the ...