A tipped lunar lander didn't mean a total loss, according to the companies that flew payloads to the moon last week.

The original assumption was that commercial lunar landings would be, to use a basketball term, “shots on goal” with some of ...

A day after a live webcast captured a somber-looking mission control room in the minutes surrounding its planned Thursday ...

The Athena lander from Intuitive Machines could not charge its batteries after ending up on its side. It largely failed to ...

Intuitive Machines' IM-2 Athena lander ended up on its side on the moon, forcing a premature end to a mission packed with rovers and NASA science.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses. The latest casualty ...

The Houston-based company that was set to deliver a historic water-hunting mission to the lunar south pole says its Athena ...

HOUSTON—Intuitive Machines’ Athena Nova-C lander touched down at Mons Mouton in the south pole region of the Moon on March 6, ...

The Houston-based company put its Athena spacecraft on the moon just after 12:30 p.m. ET. The landing site is closer to the lunar south pole than any human or vehicle has traveled before.

Another historic U.S. robotic Moon landing happened Thursday, but whether the lander is sitting upright on the surface remains unclear.

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

Companies are landing on the moon—or trying to. These players all have exciting goals for innovation on the final frontier.