Intuitive Machine's second mission to the moon, IM-2, is set to launch Wednesday evening from KSC. Onboard is NASA science.

Grace isn't the only robot that caught a ride to the lunar surface on Athena. The lander is also carrying a small rover called MAPP (Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform), which was built by the ...

Chandrayaan-3's ChaSTE provided crucial temperature data from the Moon's high-latitude regions, enhancing the understanding ...

A private US company says it has landed a spacecraft close to the Moon's South Pole but fears the machine is not upright. The Athena spacecraft is communicating with Earth, but is not in the "correct ...

On board is a drill built by NASA that will drill about three feet below the lunar surface to check for volatile compounds, including water. Some craters near the south pole of the moon are in ...

If all goes according to plan, the Athena lander will touch down near the moon's south pole on or around March 6.

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

Water extracted from ice could serve multiple ... And these conditions are similar to those proposed for future lunar south pole landing missions, including with NASA's Artemis moon missions, the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — 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, officials said Friday. The news came less than ...

The moon lander Athena made it to the lunar surface, but its condition and exact location remain unclear, Intuitive Machines and NASA confirmed.

Intuitive Machines’ Athena lunar lander approached the moon’s surface on the south pole Thursday ... and we believe that water and other volatiles could build up inside those craters and ...

Chandrayaan-3's Chandra's Surface Thermophysical Experiment (ChaSTE) achieved unprecedented in-situ temperature measurements at the Moon's south pole ... and potential water-ice deposits, which ...