Moon landing mission: Intuitive Machines to launch 2nd lunar lander for NASA Intuitive Machines' Micro Nova Hopper. A small propulsive drone known as the Micro Nova Hopper will be able to explore ...

The moon lander Athena made it to the lunar surface, but its condition and exact location remain unclear, Intuitive Machines and NASA confirmed. Active sniper in Idaho kills 2 firefighters in ...

NASA and those companies will need to work fast, though. Once the sun sets on the lunar south pole and frigid temperatures take hold, it won't be long until Athena is rendered inoperable.

The Athena moon lander, with its four legs in place, atop a satellite carrier with a commercial asteroid probe and NASA lunar orbiter attached. The payload is seen as it's being encapsulated in a ...

The Brief. Athena, the private lunar lander that touched down on the moon Thursday, has been declared dead. The two moon landings this week are part of NASA’s commercial lunar delivery program ...

Intuitive Machines says its Athena lunar lander was unable to recharge its batteries while resting on its side, bringing the moon mission to an early end. ... including NASA's PRIME-1 (drill) ...

Intuitive Machines' Athena lander died inside a small crater near the moon's south pole, photos by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter show.

A private lunar lander has made its way to the moon's surface on Thursday, but there's a bit of a nail-biter as flight controllers are left scratching their heads, unable to confirm the status of ...

Intuitive Machines' Athena moon lander as photographed by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter on March 10, 2025. The lander is inside a crater at the center bottom of the frame; the inset shows a ...

NASA's Nova-C lander, Athena, will launch to the Moon aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on February 26, 2025. This mission is part of the Artemis program and the Commercial Lunar Payload Services ...

Moon landing mission: Intuitive Machines to launch 2nd lunar lander for NASA Intuitive Machines' Micro Nova Hopper. A small propulsive drone known as the Micro Nova Hopper will be able to explore ...