When a NASA spacecraft passes over Shackleton Crater on the moon and peers in, it sees this: a sea of blackness and nothing more. This 13-mile-wide crater lies close to the moon’s south pole.

As different nations begin conducting operations on the lunar surface, humanity's penchant for geopolitical struggles will ...

It is a bold move, as the US also has ambitions to establish bases at the Moon’s south pole — the Shackleton crater is prime real estate. A later Chinese mission, Chang'e 8 (currently planned ...

A new unmanned mission to the Moon will use high-speed wifi so its half dozen rovers ... The lunar surface can be as hot as ...

Athena will land very close to the ridge of the Shackleton crater, a region that is known as a peak of eternal sunshine.The ...

UPDATE Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025: 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 ...

Two private lunar landers are set to launch this week aboard the same rocket, kicking off a busy year of missions to the moon ...

With a four-day launch window that opens on 26 February, it aims to land on 6 March near Shackleton Crater, in the ...

After touching down on the moon's "far side," on the southern rim of the Apollo crater, Chang'e 6 came back with around 1.9kg of rock and soil, according to the China National Space Administration ...