SpaceX will launch Intuitive Machine’s Athena lunar lander toward the moon’s south pole on Wednesday, marking the latest ...

The map is expected to throw new light on the moon’s origin and evolution ... shows an undulating landscape of highlands and low, flat plains around the lander. The researchers traced the ...

A robotic lander named Athena is expected to make its final descent to the moon’s south pole on Thursday, making it the second lunar touchdown for a private U.S. company just this week. NASA confirmed ...

This will be the second lunar mission for a private company that made history a year ago by becoming the first to successfully land on the moon’s surface.

As the Apollo program closed in on its goal, cartographers relied on photos from 1966 and 1967 orbiter missions to create the February 1969 hand-­painted map—considered the best reference at ...