For the second time this week, a privately operated spacecraft has touched down on the Moon – but this one landed badly. The Athena lander, built by Texas outfit Intuitive Machines, set down at 1730 ...

Inside a small control room, during the middle of the day on Thursday local time in Texas, about a dozen white-knuckled engineers at a space startup named Intuitive Machines started to get worried.

HOUSTON – Another historic U.S. robotic Moon landing happened Thursday, but whether the lander is standing upright on the surface remains unclear. The space industry is in its Moon era, with dozens of ...