Intuitive Machines announced the news Friday, less than 24 hours after the lander missed its mark by more than 800 feet.

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

Ice may be present a few centimeters below the moon's surface in more areas of the lunar polar regions than was previously ...

Intuitive Machines said it was uncertain whether its Athena lander was upright near the Moon’s south pole — standing 15 feet ...

NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer will map the Moon’s water, tracking its location, form, and changes. Mission focuses on the Moon’s ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Video of a private lunar lander carrying a drill, vacuum and other experiments for NASA touching down on the ...

The south pole is considered crucial to the modern moon race, as scientists believe it’s home to stores of water ice, which could be converted to drinking water, breathable air, and even rocket ...

“This is a major step forward in unraveling where lunar water comes from,” explained Dr. Maxwell Thiemens of the AMGC research group of the VUB. “Our data suggest that the Moon inherited water tracing ...

On Wednesday, NASA sent several instruments to search for water on the moon. The "Athena" probe from ... It is to land at the South Pole and search for water ice with the help of drilling and ...

A private company launched another lunar lander Wednesday, aiming to get closer to the moon's south ... hunting for frozen water. It will be the first up-close peek inside one of the many shadowed ...

Recent moon-mapping missions have found evidence that water exists in permanently shadowed craters near the lunar south pole, the same region where NASA plans to land astronauts with its Artemis 3 ...

The bottoms of hundreds of craters at the Moon’s South Pole, for instance, are permanently shadowed and may hold ice patches. Some water also may be locked inside broken rock and dust on the ...