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

Athena carries an ice-drilling experiment, a 4G cellular network test, three rovers, and a unique hopping drone ... The ...

Athena is targeting highland terrain about 100 miles (160 kilometers) from the moon's south pole, where it will deploy three ...

Cape Canaveral, Fla. — A private lunar lander is no longer working after landing sideways in a crater near the moon’s south ...

The moon lander Athena made it to the lunar surface, but its condition and exact location remain unclear, Intuitive Machines ...

Other instruments will test a surface communications system and deploy a drone that can ... deliver instruments to the moon and send back crucial data. Athena flies over the mid-latitudes of ...

Nicknamed "Ghost Riders in the Sky," the mission comes just over a year after the first ... a first-of-its-kind hopping drone designed to explore the Moon's rugged terrain. Landing on the Moon ...

The Moon's lack of atmosphere rules out parachutes, forcing spacecraft to rely on precise thrusts and navigation over hazardous terrain. Until Intuitive Machines' first mission, only national ...

Private Lunar Lander May Have Fallen Over While Touching Down Near the Moon's South Pole CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A privately owned lunar lander touched down on the moon with a drill ...

Intuitive Machines' second moon landing ends in failure due to orientation issues, impacting future lunar missions.