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

Intuitive Machines says its Athena lunar lander was unable to recharge its batteries while resting on its side, bringing the ...

Mission controllers were able to confirm that Athena lunar lander made it to the moon, but they do not know the status of the ...

Grace isn't the only robot that caught a ride to the lunar surface on Athena. The lander is also carrying a small rover called MAPP (Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform), which was built by the ...

Intuitive Machines' Athena moon lander is giving us some incredible views from lunar orbit ahead of its March 6 touchdown attempt.

Intuitive Machines, the Houston-based company that was set to deliver a historic water-hunting mission to the moon’s south pole, announced Friday that its Athena lander has powered down just one day ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A private lunar lander is no longer working after landing sideways in a crater near the moon’s south pole and its mission is over, officials said Friday. The news came less than ...

The lander ended up on its side in a shallow crater in the Moon’s Mons Mouton region, 820 feet (250 meters) from its targeted landing site. Less than a day after its touchdown, Athena was declared ...

The Athena lunar lander has captured its first up-close look at Earth's cosmic neighbor since it began orbiting the moon less than a week into its journey to the surface. Intuitive Machines ...

which was canted to the right as two of the Athena lander's legs jutted into the sky after its touchdown in the Mons Mouton region of the lunar south pole. With the lander unable to generate power ...

Second lunar lander to reach moon this year Athena's arrival is the second of three to reach the moon this year. A lander built by Austin-based Firefly Aerospace successfully touched down on the ...

But a sensor known as an inertial measurement unit offered a perhaps convincing clue that Athena was on its side. As it headed to the lunar surface, laser instruments that measured the lander’s ...