Open the Youtube video Athena entered the Moon’s orbit on March 3 and is currently making the final adjustments to nail this week’s landing. The spacecraft is set to touch down near the ridge of ...

And in an agreement with the UAE, the first Emirati to travel to the Moon will fly aboard an Artemis mission early in the next decade. Shackleton Crater lies in the crucial south pole region and ...

For the second time in two years, a commercial lunar lander built and operated by Intuitive Machines has fallen over on the ...

Intuitive Machines plans to land the lunar lander near the South Pole of the moon, close to the Shackleton Crater, where it will drill into the surface and search for water, ice and other gases.

Intuitive Machines' latest mission ended early after its lunar lander Athena touched down in a moon crater and fell onto its ...

Athena will land in the south polar region of the moon, near the Shackleton Crater. Then, it will deploy several rover vehicles to explore the surface and take samples. The rovers will connect to ...

Intuitive Machines said the Athena had enough power to be able to perform some of the scientific objectives for NASA before ...

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 launches its second moon lander, which will use NASA and commercially developed tools to search for ice in the moon's crust.

Odysseus on the Moon. The photo shows a piece of a landing ... to land at a ridge near the 13-mile-wide (21 km) diameter Shackleton crater, but this was changed before launch to target VIPER ...

"We always think of the moon lighting our way to Mars ... lunar mountain towers over a landscape carved by craters, including the Shackleton Crater – a cold, dark region where water ice ...