Intuitive Machines' Athena mission is already over, but silver linings have emerged from the short-lived lunar south pole landing effort. Athena beamed back images from the surface of the moon ...

American space company Firefly Aerospace announced it has selected the Honeybee Robotics rover for its 2028 mission to the ...

MAPP, built by the Colorado company Lunar Outpost, will touch down aboard Intuitive Machines' Athena lander at 12:32 p.m. ET today (March 6). Update for 1 pm ET: Intuitive Machines landed its ...

A Colorado-built moon rover set to notch up a number of historic firsts will not be completing its mission near the Lunar South Pole. Lunar Outpost’s Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform (or ...

Gitai’s Japanese subsidiary has been awarded a contract by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to conduct a concept ...

A second commercially-built moon lander, this one built by Houston-based Intuitive Machines, landed near the moon's south pole Thursday, but telemetry indicated it ended up on its side. The lander ...

Moon Lander’s Journey to Lunar Surface Ends With Uncertainty Intuitive Machines, a Houston company aiming to repeat a 2024 landing, said its spacecraft, Athena, has power and is communicating ...

The Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform (MAPP) rover aboard the toppled Intuitive Machines Athena lunar lander survived the landing that took out its parent spacecraft and even managed to ...

"Our data paints a clear picture that MAPP survived the landing attempt and would have driven on the lunar surface and achieved our mission objectives had it been given the opportunity." Intuitive ...

Space robotics specialist GITAI has completed a concept study for a mechanical arm that would be ready to support Japan’s ...

A Colorado-built moon rover set to notch up a number of historic firsts will not be completing its mission near the Lunar South Pole. Lunar Outpost’s Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform rover ...