Athena, the private lunar lander from Intuitive Machines, missed its mark while landing on the moon Thursday and ended up ...

The Athena lander from Intuitive Machines could not charge its batteries after ending up on its side. It largely failed to ...

Intuitive Machines' Athena moon lander is "alive," but it's not yet known what mission objectives can still be met.

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

Thursday morning, while flying over the far side of the moon, Athena's main engine fired, starting a process to lower the far side of its orbit from about 62 miles to a little more than 6 miles.

When the time comes, Athena will have a complex dance to fly along its path to landing. From the far side of the moon, outside of regular communications range, the lander will perform a descent ...