The company’s Odin spacecraft was launched successfully on Feb. 26, but it soon encountered huge communication difficulties, ...

This week, a tale of two lunar landers demonstrates why scientists and engineers always expect the unexpected in the saga of ...

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

A privately owned spacecraft has reached the moon's surface in a dramatic lunar landing. Yet, the mystery of its condition ...

The Athena lander, built by Texas-based company Intuitive Machines, descended to the lunar surface but the orientation of the ...

Firefly Aerospace on Sunday became the first to achieve complete success with its Blue Ghost lunar lander, on the ...

A privately built spacecraft is tumbling aimlessly in deep space, with little hope of being able to contact its home planet.

"In many ways, Odin has become both a pioneer and a teacher — continuing its mission by informing our future endeavors, even ...

A private space mission designed to push the boundaries of deep space exploration has encountered major technical failures ...

A privately-built spacecraft has embarked on an unprecedented deep space mission to scout out an asteroid's potential for mining. The probe, called Odin, was launched on a SpaceX rocket alongside ...

Gialich said Odin should reach the far side of the moon in just five days but will spend another roughly 300 days in the celestial void, waiting to make a close approach to its target asteroid ...