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

Known as Athena, the IM-2 spacecraft from Intuitive Machines was launched eight days ago by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Sharing the ride to space were three other spacecraft: a moon-bound NASA ...

The spacecraft will travel for about a week before landing near the moon’s south pole. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 7:17 p.m ...

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

With two commercial moon landers already on their way, Houston-based Intuitive Machines launched its second robotic lander ...

Athena will launch on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, with a launch window of 7:02 p.m. and 7:34 p.m. ET. Intuitive Machines plans to land the lunar ...

A time-lapse photo of a total lunar eclipse as viewed over a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft at Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, March 13-14, 2025.

SpaceX will launch Intuitive Machine’s Athena lunar lander toward the moon’s south pole on Wednesday, marking the latest mission by Intuitive Machine to explore the moon’s surface after ...

The private Athena lunar lander is on its way to the moon. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off shortly after sunset this evening (Feb. 26), carrying Athena and NASA's ride-along Lunar Trailblazer ...