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.

and teams are now preparing for a landing attempt near the lunar south pole on Thursday (March 6). That's not the only private spacecraft preparing to land on the moon. Tokyo-based ispace's ...

IM-2 will also carry a small hopper named Grace, designed to navigate the lunar surface and access challenging areas. IM-2 is scheduled to land on the moon's south pole on March 6, following ...

Intuitive Machines' second lander, Athena, is targeting a Thursday, March 6 touchdown on the lunar south pole following a Feb. 26 launch from Florida. Were astronauts to step foot on the moon as ...

Named Odysseus after the Greek hero of the Trojan War, IM-1 made the first ever lunar landing by a commercial vehicle and the closest to the south pole, at 80.13° south latitude. However ...

IM-2 is aiming to land 100 miles (160 km) from the lunar south pole, near a permanently shadowed crater thought to hold frozen water. A key feature of the mission is Grace, a drone that will ...

It carried the ‘Athena’ Nova-C class lunar lander. The mission aimed to get closer to the moon's south pole with a drone that will get into a jet-black crater. Notably, this crater has ...

A private company launched another lunar lander Wednesday (February 26, 2025), aiming to get closer to the moon’s south pole this time with a drone that will hop into a jet-black crater that ...