A private lunar lander is no longer working after landing sideways in a crater near the moon’s south pole and its mission is over ... no earlier than 2027. The craters are believed to hold tons of ...

In a paper published in National Science Review, a research team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences investigated impact ...

After a day of uncertainty following a harrowing moon landing attempt, the company Intuitive Machines sealed the fate of its latest lunar probe Athena. The spacecraft, which attempted a historic ...

Athena’s major payloads were geared toward unlocking the south pole’s secrets armed ... “We know because of the moon’s tilt, that the craters near the poles are permanently shadowed.

Because of the Moon's orientation, the craters on the south pole are permanently in shadow, and scientists believe there is water ice in these vast craters. Some of the payloads on Athena will ...

Commercial company Intuitive Machines has landed its second probe on the moon, but company officials say it isn't in the correct position. The same thing happened last time.

The Houston-based company is poised to land its Athena spacecraft on the moon at 12:30 p.m. ET. The landing site closer to the lunar south pole than any human or vehicle has traveled before.

The areas closest to the moon’s south pole are pockmarked with impact craters, making it difficult to find a patch of flat, even terrain that’s safe for landing. “IM-2 has to be a lot more ...

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

A private lunar lander is no longer working after landing sideways in a crater near the moon’s south pole and its mission ... no earlier than 2027. The craters are believed to hold tons of ...