If all goes according to plan, the Athena lander will touch down near the moon's south pole on or around March 6.

Intuitive Machines launches its second moon lander, which will use NASA and commercially developed tools to search for ice in ...

Learn about NASA's Lunar Trailblazer and IM-2, two missions that will soon launch into space to find clues on the presence of ...

SpaceX Falcon 9 launched Athena and Lunar Trailblazer to advance lunar water ice exploration and future missions.

The Lunar Trailblazer orbiter's launch window opens Feb 26. It's catching a ride with Intuitive Machines IM-2 mission which ...

NASA's water-hunting Lunar Trailblazer probe is experiencing communication and power issues while it makes its way to the ...

With the launch of Intuitive Machines' Athena spacecraft atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket last night (Feb. 27), three lunar ...

With two commercial moon landers already on their way, Houston-based Intuitive Machines launched its second robotic lander atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Wednesday, the centerpiece of a multi ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Space.com / Josh Dinner CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The private Athena lunar lander is ...

on Wednesday. It was carrying both the Nova-C lunar lander Athena and the Lunar Trailblazer. (Steve Nesius/Reuters) "We see tiny amounts of water on sun-lit portions of the moon, which is ...

(Bright specks visible near the rocket stage may be some of the other payloads that launched with Athena, such as NASA's Lunar Trailblazer orbiter and Odin, a probe built by the asteroid-mining ...

The Athena lunar lander manufactured by Houston ... on the moon to reach further into the Solar System.” NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft, which launched as a rideshare on the Falcon ...