The findings reveal unusual chemical signatures and offer new insights into the behavior of novas beyond the Milky Way.

It was not until February 22, 2024, that another American-built spacecraft made a soft landing on the Moon. This was the Nova-C Odysseus lander built by Intuitive Machines. It landed, toppled over, ...

as well as one crucial NASA spacecraft joining the launch on its own seperate lunar mission. A small propulsive drone known as the Micro Nova Hopper will be able to explore a wider swath of the ...

Last month, US and Japanese companies shared a rocket and separately launched landers toward Earth’s sidekick. The NASA Nova-C lunar lander, part of the Intuitive Machines IM-2 mission, lifts off on a ...

The IM-2 lander is believed to have reached the moon's south pole region, but its precise position and location are unclear.

Among the NASA instruments are the Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1, or PRIME-1, which comprises a drill and mass spectrometer to explore the Moon’s subsurface for traces of water ice. The ...

The company's Athena lander is scheduled to launch toward the moon atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Wednesday evening (Feb. 26).

Intuitive Machines is "ready to go" with its second moon landing mission, a company executive said on Wednesday, a day ahead of the scheduled launch of its lunar lander.

NASA announced Tuesday the dismissal of its chief scientist and others to comply with orders from President Donald Trump, ...

What time will the NASA, SpaceX IM-2 mission launch from Florida? Athena, the Intuitive Machines Nova-C lander, has a launch window from 7:02 p.m. to 8:04 p.m.. EDT Wednesday, Feb. 26 ...

The lander, called Athena, is a Nova-C class lunar lander and carries ... another CLPS mission tasked with using NASA instruments to survey. the moon's environment on the Earth-facing side.