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

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 ...

Athena’s major payloads were geared toward unlocking the south pole’s secrets armed with several ... was also stuck on two payloads designed to move away from it — a mini rover and a hopper.

The lander made its attempt at a landing near the Moon's Mons Mouton, a flat-topped mountain roughly 100 miles from the south pole, around noon on Thursday. But things didn't quite go as planned.

Commercial company Intuitive Machines has put its second probe on the moon, but it was not immediately clear if the vehicle ...

A Texas company's privately owned lunar lander was deemed non-functional after landing off-target sideways in a crater close to the Moon's south pole, the firm said on Friday. The mission to drop ...

This photo provided by Intuitive Machines on Friday, March 7, 2025, shows the Athena, a private lunar lander, after landing sideways in a crater near the moon's south pole. (Intuitive Machines via AP) ...