A robotic moon lander known as Athena is scheduled to launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center ...

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

Where did IM-2 land on the moon? The IM-2 landed in the lunar south pole region, roughly 820 feet from its intended landing site in the moon's Mons Mouton region. The area is thought to contain ...

The Houston-based company's second lunar lander, named Athena, touched down at the Mons Mouton region of the moon's south pole on schedule today (March 6) at 12:31 p.m. EST (1731 GMT). It wasn't a ...

The spacecraft, which attempted a historic landing in rugged terrain near the south pole of the moon on Thursday (March 6), had toppled on its side inside a frigid crater. A photo taken by the ...

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 former army officer, who has been skiing nine to 11 hours and covering between 18 and 23km per day, hopes to reach the South Pole by January 7. Speaking via a satellite phone from Antarctica ...

The Lunar South Pole witnesses the Sun near or just above the horizon, inducing temperatures that can climb to a scorching 130°F (54°C) during its radiant moments. Even during this period of ...

With this milestone, India proudly becomes the first nation to accomplish the remarkable feat of landing a spacecraft on the Lunar South Pole ... launches and related satellite-based businesses.

NASA lost contact with its Lunar Trailblazer satellite shortly after launch ... touched down 100 miles or so from the moon's south pole around 12:30 p.m. EST. The exact timing and the lander's ...

The satellite is designed to map the entire sky ... touched down near a crater called Malapert A, close to the lunar south pole. Not only was the milestone the first successful moon landing ...