Astronomers are ready to search for the fingerprints of life in faraway planetary atmospheres. But first, they need to know ...

The first astronauts preparing to fly to the moon in more than 50 years want your help identifying their "moon mascot." ...

HOUSTON—Intuitive Machines’ Athena Nova-C lander touched down at Mons Mouton in the south pole region of the Moon on March 6, ...

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.

A US company's lunar lander appears to have touched down at a wonky angle on Thursday, an embarrassing repeat of its previous ...

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 ...

NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer will map the Moon’s water, tracking its location, form, and changes. Mission focuses on the Moon’s ...

One, the Lunar Thermal Mapper (LTM), was designed to map the surface temperature of the moon using infrared light, which could help it map mineral distribution on the lunar surface. You may like ...

How Small Teams at Intuitive Machines Are Solving Big Lunar Challenges Also heading to the Moon is NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer, a smallish satellite designed to map the distribution of water across ...

On Wednesday 26 February, a thermal imaging camera blasted off to the Moon as part of NASA's Lunar Trailblazer mission. This aims to map sources of water on the Moon to shed light on the lunar water ...

This small yet powerful satellite will map water on the Moon, revealing its distribution, form, and movement. Before arriving at the Moon, the small satellite mission will use the gravity of the Sun, ...

Scientists are set to launch a spacecraft this week to map water on the Moon ... the satellite will use the gravity of the Sun, Moon and Earth once it leaves the Falcon 9 rocket to guide it ...