But when scientists peer very far back, they find conundrums. JWST observations of the distant past are at odds with ...

On what might have been the proudest day of Jack Burns’s long career in astronomy, he was sitting on a beach. Orbital ...

[Courtesy: Intuitive Machines] Six days on the moon’s surface and 13 days after launch, the Odysseus private lunar landing mission that put the U.S. back on the moon for the first time in more ...

We now know why Intuitive Machine's Athena moon lander fell on its side shortly after touching down on March 6.

This was the company's second attempt to land on the Moon, with both missions having toppled over on the lunar surface.

Intuitive Machines released two new photos transmitted by its voyaging Nova-C robotic lunar lander Odysseus, which will attempt to reach the moon’s South Pole surface Thursday. The mission ...

"I know this was a nail-biter, but we are on the surface, and we are transmitting," Intuitive Machines CEO Steve Altemus said. "Welcome to the moon." ...

Intuitive also has more missions as part of its ongoing CLPS program contracts. Its third mission, IM-3, will deliver ...

Although it fell onto its side, Odysseus was able to communicate with flight controllers after landing, and the mission ended ...

Unlike the Apollo program, which landed astronauts near the moon's equator, Odysseus is aiming for an area of the lunar south pole being considered for NASA's crewed Artemis mission, The ...