A day after a live webcast captured a somber-looking mission control room in the minutes surrounding its planned Thursday ...

In April, ESA's Mars Orbiter captured images of surface features around the planet's south pole that researchers said were "surprisingly dark compared with their icy surroundings." The scientists ...

The Red Planet and its tiny moon Deimos were recorded at a very near distance as the asteroid-chasing spacecraft completed a flyby on Wednesday.

Intuitive Machines made history in 2024 as the first private firm to place a spaceship on Earth's nearest neighbor, though ...

After a day of uncertainty following a harrowing moon landing attempt, the company Intuitive Machines sealed the fate of its ...

Athena is targeting highland terrain about 100 miles (160 kilometers) from the moon's south pole, where it will deploy three ...

Athena’s major payloads were geared toward unlocking the south pole’s secrets armed with several ... surface and prepare us to have humans on Mars.” Acting NASA Administrator Janet Petro ...

Intuitive Machines announced that its 15-foot-tall robot Athena is expected to land on the moon’s south pole around 12:30 p.m ...

Current and upcoming Moon missions focus on exploring the lunar south pole in particular ... of reactors which can be used on the Moon or Mars. As for why so many Moon missions target the lunar ...