NASA is preparing for its most ambitious lunar mission yet with the ... drone - all heading to the Moon’s south pole. Plus, a bold asteroid mining mission is launching alongside, and a new telescope ...

Celestis says it's the 1st company to offer space burials. Some remains, from "Star Trek" actors to JFK, have flown to orbit from Florida.

Celestis, which recently conducted a mission from California, will send cremated remains or human DNA to outer space for ...

The earliest light in the universe has been traveling across space since just after the Big Bang. Known as the cosmic ...

Spanish technology company GMV has unveiled a GPS-like navigation system for the moon that aims to make lunar missions as intuitive as a drive across town with apps such as Google Maps or Waze.

It's a twofold milestone: the first landing near the south pole and the first lunar touchdown for India. India is now the fourth nation to land on the moon, following the U.S., Russia/Soviet Union ...

Athena launched last Wednesday aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which also carried NASA's Lunar Trailblazer probe, a spacecraft designed to map the Moon's water distribution.

The IM-2 lander, Athena, is scheduled to land on the moon’s south pole on March 6, in an area known as Mons Mouton. Mons Mouton is a lunar mountain named in honor of NASA mathematician and ...

Following a successful launch of Intuitive Machines' lunar lander, part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative, the team from Colorado-based Lunar Outpost was back to work.

And in 2027, IM-4 will deliver a European surface drill and other payloads to the Moon’s south pole. Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect IM-2’s new landing site at Mons Mouton.

The high-resolution maps that follow will offer unprecedented insight into where lunar water collects, ... including even the deep craters at the South Pole. Its Lunar Thermal Mapper ...