The private Fram2 mission is launching later today, sending a crew of amateurs to an unprecedented polar orbit—a frontier ...

A private company will attempt to complete a quick one-two punch at the moon’s face today as Intuitive ... but this time on the south pole. The Houston-based company’s Athena lander on the ...

The lander made its attempt at a landing near the Moon's Mons Mouton, a flat-topped mountain roughly 100 miles from the south pole ... spacecraft with a half-lit Earth glinting in the background.

Across the South Pole’s frozen expanse, there lives only one purely terrestrial ... ready to reproduce in the few days they have left on Earth. If they aren’t synchronized, it could spell doom for the ...

A SpaceX astronaut mission like no other will lift off from Kennedy Space Center on Monday night. Here's what to know.

Update for 1 pm ET: Intuitive Machines landed its private Athena spacecraft near the south pole of the moon today ... the lander will witness Earth overtake the sun for a solar eclipse on the ...

Earth experiences seasonal changes because its axis is tilted so different areas of the planet face the sun's direct ... However, when the South Pole tilts toward the sun, it's winter in the ...

Athena touched down on the lunar South Pole shortly after 1730GMT (1230EST ... Radio communications from Earth are also more difficult. And Dr Barber says some of the instruments are likely ...

China's Chang'e-6 mission landed on the moon’s South Pole-Aitken Basin, according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA). Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: China National Space ...

The first day of spring, or the vernal equinox, is determined by where the Earth is in ... is when the North Pole tilts toward the sun and the winter solstice is when the South Pole tilts toward ...

“It’s a successful design, and you ... from Earth, taken from about 100 kilometers (62.1 miles) above the surface, as well as stunning imagery of an area of the lunar south pole.

It slowed from more than 4,000mph to touch down on the Mons Mouton, a ridge just 100 miles from the lunar south pole ... stations on Earth, underlines the risks they will face.