It wasn't a picture-perfect landing, however. While Athena is sending data home to Earth and generating power on the lunar surface, the spacecraft does not seem to have landed fully upright as ...

The Athena probe is designed to stay put once it lands, but it's carrying a number of little rovers that will take a look around. One, called Grace, will hop across the lunar surface using a small ...

The probe was heading for an asteroid to scout ... making it the “southernmost lunar landing and surface operations ever achieved,” according to the company. Engineered by Colossal Biosciences ...

A lunar probe funded by NASA and operated by the American ... showing Athena lying on the moon's surface with the Earth in the background. Intuitive Machines Executes Southernmost Lunar Landing ...

Ground controllers for the NASA/Caltech-led mission, called Lunar Trailblazer, have valiantly tried to reestablish communications with the small satellite over the last week, but the probe is ...

The Athena probe is designed to stay put once it lands, but it's carrying a number of little rovers designed to take a look around. One, called Grace, will hop across the lunar surface using a ...

The probe also contains 4-G cellular equipment developed by Nokia and NASA to provide more bandwidth communications than ever before from the lunar surface. Along with the unsuccessful Astrobotic ...

"We don't believe we're in the correct attitude (orientation) on the surface of ... orbiter known as the Lunar Trailblazer, a commercial deep space asteroid prospecting probe named Odin, and ...

are too low to provide adequate source of excitation for the visibility of daytime luminescence of the lunar surface; for night-time events it is adequate. Whether or not this is so at the ...

Commercial company Intuitive Machines has landed its second probe ... lunar acceleration," mission director Tim Crain told the Intuitive Machines team in mission control. "So we're on the surface ...