The lander entered lunar orbit on Monday before attempting to touch down on the surface. Following a nail-biting descent, Intuitive Machines was working to figure out the lander’s orientation on the ...

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 ...

Second lunar lander to reach moon this year ... communications integration and another $41 million went to Intuitive Machines to help finance the "Grace" hopper. Another $89 million paid for ...

Intuitive Machines got its Athena lunar lander on the moon’s south pole Thursday on a mission with NASA payloads, but tipped ...

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 ...

Shares of Intuitive Machines tumbled on Thursday amid uncertainty about the status of its Athena lander’s attempt to touch down on the surface of the moon today.

• Houston-based company Intuitive Machines put its Athena spacecraft on the moon around 12:31 p.m. ET, but the lander’s exact status is currently unclear. • Mission teams believe the ...

Intuitive Machines’ Athena lunar lander is dead, just one day after it touched down at the moon’s south pole and tipped over. Luckily, the company says it was able to “accelerate several ...

After becoming the first private company to touch down on the lunar surface last year, Intuitive Machines is gearing up for a second Moon landing near the satellite’s south pole. Hopefully this ...

The last few weeks have been eventful for space-exploration company Intuitive Machines Inc., which recently ended its second ...

(AP) — A privately owned lunar lander touched down on the moon with a drill, drone and rovers for NASA and other customers Thursday, but quickly ran into trouble and may have fallen over. Intuitive ...

Intuitive Machines The 15-foot-tall (4.6-meter-tall) Athena will have joined a lunar lander developed by another Texas-based company — Firefly Aerospace of Austin suburb Cedar Park — on the ...