Scientists have long sought to determine the age of the moon's South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin, the largest and oldest known ...

Athena will touch down approximately 160 kilometres from the Moon's South Pole, near the Mons Mouton region. Its primary objective is to explore the lunar terrain and search for water ice ...

CEO Steve Altemus said the company is in the same predicament with its new lander named Athena, which managed to touch down near the moon’s south pole at 12:31 p.m. Thursday, but didn’t stick ...

Current and upcoming Moon missions focus on exploring the lunar south pole in particular, with frozen water presumed to exist in deep craters at both poles. All of which raises the question of we ...

A private company will attempt to complete a quick one-two punch at the moon’s face today as Intuitive ... but this time on the south pole. The Houston-based company’s Athena lander on the ...

Following a successful launch of Intuitive Machines' lunar lander, part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative, the team from Colorado-based Lunar Outpost was back to work.

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 ...

Update for 1 pm ET: Intuitive Machines landed its private Athena spacecraft near the south pole of the moon today, but the exact fate of the probe is unclear. The company confirmed that the Athena ...

Intuitive Machines said it was uncertain whether its Athena lander was upright near the moon's south pole — standing 15 feet (4.7 meters) tall — or lying sideways like its first spacecraft ...

Update for 1 pm ET: Intuitive Machines landed its private Athena spacecraft near the south pole of the moon today, but the exact fate of the probe is unclear. The company confirmed that the Athena ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A privately owned lunar lander touched down on the moon with a drill, drone and rovers for NASA and other customers Thursday, but quickly ran into trouble and may ...