Several issues conspired to bring Athena down, including tough lighting conditions near the moon's south pole.

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

This was the company's second attempt to land on the Moon, with both missions having toppled over on the lunar surface.

A dramatic photograph from Intuitive Machines' Athena moon lander shows it touched down Thursday in a crater near the lunar south pole and tipped over on its side. Given a low sun angle and the ...

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — After launching from Florida's space coast and cruising toward the moon for the last five months, the ...

A robotic lander named Athena has made its final descent to the moon’s surface, marking the second lunar touchdown for a US company this week. But the orientation of the lander is currently unknown.

A lunar lander made its touchdown on the moon earlier on Thursday, but controllers on the ground were unable to confirm the Athena lander’s condition upon landing, the Associated Press reported.

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 meant to get ...

Houston-based company Intuitive Machines put its Athena spacecraft on the moon around 12:31 p.m. ET, but the lander’s exact status is currently unclear. • Mission teams believe the spacecraft ...

But a sensor known as an inertial measurement unit offered a perhaps convincing clue that Athena was on its side. As it headed to the lunar surface, laser instruments that measured the lander’s ...