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 ...

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 ...

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying IM-2 successfully lifted off at 7:16 P.M. EST on Wednesday, Feb. 26. Early next month, a robotic lander will arrive at the Moon's south pole bearing an eclectic ...

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.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A private lunar lander is no longer working after landing sideways in a crater near the moon’s ...

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

Early next month, a robotic lander will arrive at the Moon's south pole bearing an ... a ridge near the 13-mile-wide (21 km) diameter Shackleton crater. While the towering peaks around its rim ...

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

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 ...

"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 ...

when its Odysseus lander became the first private company to land on the moon. A successful IM-2, landing in the Shackleton crater area, would prove Intuitive Machines can deliver reliable lunar ...