The IM-2 mission lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 7:16 p.m. ET, February 26, ...

A US company is aiming for its second lunar touchdown after a lander carrying a suite of unique experiments successfully ...

A SpaceX launch Wednesday night sent both a lander and an orbiter on their way to the moon, both on the hunt for ice.

Athena, a robotic lunar lander built by Intuitive Machines, is on its way to the Moon’s south pole, aiming for the closest ...

Intuitive Machines' IM-2 mission has launched from Kennedy Space Center Pad 39A. Its next stop - the moon's south pole.

Onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is Athena, Intuitive Machine’s second moon lander, with instruments designed to dig up lunar soil and search for compounds like frozen water.

SpaceX launched its second lunar mission of 2025, just over a month after flying the Firefly Blue Ghost and HAKUTO-R M2 Resilience landers to the Moon atop a single Falcon 9. Another Falcon 9, this ...

Intuitive Machines’ lander, named Athena, caught a lift with SpaceX from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. It’s taking a fast track to the moon — with a landing on March 6 — while hoping to avoid the fate ...

SpaceX successfully launched a new round of Starlink satellites into orbit on Wednesday night after scrubbing the flights.

IM-2 is a “very complicated” prospecting mission that will deploy a drill, hopper and rover on the lunar surface, according ...

The latest contender is a standout: The spacecraft, called Athena, was built by Houston-based Intuitive Machines, which so ...

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