China’s lunar ambitions have evolved from symbolic flag planting to a systematic push for permanent space infrastructure.

At this time, the sun shines at such an angle to make it appear as if there is a gigantic 'V' and 'X' marking the barren ...

Nasa's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured photos of the site where the ispace Mission 2 attempted to land.

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

Credit: Honeybee Robotics The Moon goes global In addition to the NASA-subsidized commercialization of the Moon, lunar exploration has become a truly international endeavor.

Lunar landers from Firefly Aerospace and Japanese company ispace will lift off atop the same SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket this week ...

They’re not going to be like Shackleton Crater where you may have a good water potential but it’s unobtainium, because you have a [2.8-mile] 4½-kilometer downward trek at a 30º slope at ...

NASA's Lunar Navigation Challenge seeks ideas for a low-tech orienteering device and creative solutions for accessing and mapping the moon's Shackleton Crater.

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.

One of China's next steps in this strategy, the robotic Chang'e 7 mission, is expected to launch in 2026. It will land on the illuminated rim of the moon’s Shackleton crater, very close to 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 ...

It’s the approximate distance between the Sea of Tranquility—where Apollo 11’s Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin first landed on July 20, 1969—and Shackleton Crater at the south lunar pole.