The Houston-based company is poised to land its Athena spacecraft on the moon at 12:30 p.m. ET. The landing site closer to the lunar south pole than any human or vehicle has traveled before.

Blue Ghost successfully landed on the moon on Sunday (March 2), touching down in Mare Crisium ("Sea of Crises") — a large impact basin about 345 miles (555 kilometers) wide. The spacecraft sits near a ...

Today, Intuitive Machines plans to land a 15-foot tall spacecraft on the lunar surface. The Athena spacecraft will carry, among other payloads, storage and compute for Lonestar Data, which it believes ...

A private company will attempt to complete a quick one-two punch at the moon’s face today as Intuitive Machines looks to ...

Houston-based Intuitive Machines, which last year became the first private-sector company to soft-land a vehicle on the moon, said that its Athena spacecraft is on track to touch down around 11:30 a.m ...

Like Firefly Aerospace’s Ghost Riders in the Sky mission, Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 mission is part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar ...

Intuitive Machines' Athena moon lander will deploy two small rovers, a rocket-powered "hopper," and use a powerful drill to ...

Watch Historic Moment as Blue Ghost Executes Perfect Moon Landing on Interesting Engineering. Explore the latest in ...

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander nailed its first lunar landing attempt on Sunday, setting down close to Mons Latreille, ...

The Blue Ghost lander is busy conducting science experiments on the Moon and it was recently spotted by a NASA spacecraft in ...