Images of Earth and the moon captured by the Tianwen 2 robotic probe are released on Tuesday by the China National Space ...

"We would need to consider the possibility that the source was created (or trapped as a primordial black hole) by a highly advanced technological civilization," Harvard's Avi Loeb writes.

If a huge asteroid smashes into the moon in 2032, the gigantic explosion would send debris streaming toward Earth that would ...

As different nations begin conducting operations on the lunar surface, humanity's penchant for geopolitical struggles will ...

A private space firm from Japan did not stick its moon landing on Thursday, which makes this the second failed attempt to get to the lunar surface for the company in the past two years.. The ...

Kim Moon-soo (L), presidential candidate of the People Power Party, and Han Duck-soo, a preliminary presidential candidate, meet for the second straight day at the National Assembly in Seoul on May 8, ...

Intuitive Machines’ Athena lunar lander is dead, just one day after it touched down at the moon’s south pole and tipped over. Luckily, the company says it was able to “accelerate several ...

The second lunar lander by Intuitive Machines has made its way to the Moon, but not without incident. The Athena vehicle may not be upright, which is what happened to the company’s Odysseus ...

The second-ever commercial landing on the moon comes amid a flurry of lunar exploration activity that will see around a dozen missions this year alone. Close. Advertisement. Skip to content.

Intuitive Machines is “ready to go” with its second moon landing mission, a company executive said on Wednesday (February 26, 2025), a day ahead of the scheduled launch of its lunar lander.

Intuitive Machines out of Texas is sending a second lunar lander, this time Athena, to the moon, where it will drill for water, ice and other gases.

Intuitive Machines landed a robot on the moon last year. Can the Houston company do it again, but keep the spacecraft upright this time? The company’s second lander, named Athena, launched on ...