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

Intuitive Machines, a Houston company aiming to repeat a 2024 landing, said its spacecraft, Athena, has power and is communicating but may not be upright. It is unclear how that might impact the ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — Intuitive Machines confirmed that its lunar lander did touch down on the moon Thursday, but in an update from officials, they are still trying to determine the position of ...

The Odysseus lunar lander came in hot ... chief technology officer and co-founder of Intuitive Machines. Now, the company has a good understanding of the craft's liquid methane and liquid oxygen ...

Intuitive Machines expected Odysseus would lose power Wednesday night when lunar nighttime set ... Intuitive Machines, says the mission was a success Eric Lagatta covers breaking and trending ...

Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke and space shuttle astronaut Nicole Stott will have profiles of their faces land on the moon.

Now, Firefly is about to find out if its lunar program is a technical success. Landing on the Moon is risky. In the last decade, the success rate for lunar landing attempts is a little above 50 ...

A robotic lunar lander built by Texas-based Firefly has successfully landed on the moon, becoming only the second private-sector company ever to complete such a feat.