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

Blue Ghost successfully landed on the moon on Sunday (March 2), touching down in Mare Crisium ("Sea of Crises") — a large ...

Commercial company Intuitive Machines is attempting to land a probe near the lunar south pole. If successful, it will be the second time a private company has landed on the moon in less than a week.

A private company will attempt to complete a quick one-two punch at the moon’s face today as Intuitive Machines looks to ...

The mission comes four days after another commercial space company, Firefly Aerospace, successfully landed its spacecraft on ...

Houston-based Intuitive Machines, which last year became the first private-sector company to soft-land a vehicle on the moon, said that its Athena spacecraft is on track to touch down around 11:30 a.m ...

Like Firefly Aerospace’s Ghost Riders in the Sky mission, Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 mission is part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar ...

Intuitive Machines' Athena moon lander will deploy two small rovers, a rocket-powered "hopper," and use a powerful drill to ...

Video of a private lunar lander carrying a drill, vacuum and other experiments for NASA touching down on the moon Sunday was released this week.

Intuitive Machines' Athena could be the second U.S. spacecraft to land on the moon in a week after Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost made it Sunday.

It was not until February 22, 2024, that another American-built spacecraft made a soft landing on the Moon. This was the Nova-C Odysseus lander built by Intuitive Machines. It landed, toppled over, ...