The IM-2 lander is believed to have reached the moon's south pole region, but its precise position and location are unclear.
Among the NASA instruments are the Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1, or PRIME-1, which comprises a drill and mass spectrometer to explore the Moon’s subsurface for traces of water ice. The ...
a plateau near the lunar south pole -- farther south than any robot has ventured. NASA will livestream the landing an hour before touchdown as Athena, the 4.8-meter hexagonal lander -- about the ...
The company included an image taken from the lander, named Athena, looking back towards Earth and the lunar horizon. "With the direction of the sun, the orientation of the solar panels ...
A lunar lander launched by a private company made a soft landing on the moon Sunday — the first such landing of its kind and major milestone for privatized space missions. Firefly Aerospace’s ...