Athena will land in the moon's Mons Mouton region at 12:32 p.m. EST.

The lander apparently touched down 100 miles or so from the moon's south pole around 12:30 p.m. EST ... tail-down orientation for the final phase of the descent, scanning the surface ahead ...

Scientists have long sought to determine the age of the moon's South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin, the largest and oldest known ...

Where did IM-2 land on the moon? The IM-2 landed in the lunar south pole region, roughly 820 feet from its intended landing site in the moon's Mons Mouton region. The area is thought to contain ...

CEO Steve Altemus said the company is in the same predicament with its new lander named Athena, which managed to touch down near the moon’s south pole at 12:31 p.m. Thursday, but didn’t stick ...

Following a successful launch of Intuitive Machines' lunar lander, part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative, the team from Colorado-based Lunar Outpost was back to work.

Update for 1 pm ET: Intuitive Machines landed its private Athena spacecraft near the south pole of the moon today, but the exact fate of the probe is unclear. The company confirmed that the Athena ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A private lunar lander is no longer working after landing sideways in a crater near the moon’s south pole and its mission is over, officials said Friday. The news came ...

For the terminal phase, the lander switches to internal ... An illustration of Mons Mouton, a mesa-like lunar mountain near the moon's south pole named after NASA mathematician Melba Mouton.

As they say, picture didn't happen. A private lunar lander is no longer working after landing sideways in a crater near the moon’s south pole and its mission is over, officials said Friday ...