"Athena continues to be in excellent health, completing lunar orbits every two hours, waiting for the sun to rise on her intended south pole region landing site, Mons Mouton," one March 4 post says.

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 ... "With the direction of the Sun, the orientation ...

After a day of uncertainty following a harrowing moon landing attempt, the company Intuitive Machines sealed the fate of its latest lunar probe Athena. The spacecraft, which attempted a historic ...

The Lunar South Pole witnesses the Sun near or just above the horizon, inducing temperatures that can climb to a scorching 130°F (54°C) during its radiant moments. Even during this period of ...