The Schuler period was important for the invention of the gyrocompass: Even Albert Einstein was involved in the development ...

Intuitive Machine's lander toppled over inside a crater on the Moon's south pole after making its landing attempt this week.

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

First private US robotic lunar rover, Mapp, built by Lunar Outpost, successfully lands near the moon’s south pole. Carried aboard Intuitive Machines' Athena lander, Mapp aims to explore lunar terrain ...

Intuitive Machines confirmed that its lunar lander, Athena, touched down on the Moon at approximately 11:30 a.m. CST on ...

Commercial company Intuitive Machines has put its second probe on the moon, but it was not immediately clear if the vehicle was upright and fully functioning.

A private company launched another lunar lander Wednesday (February 26, 2025), aiming to get closer to the moon’s south pole this time with a drone that will hop into a jet-black crater that ...

Pesky’s Pole. Surely you’ve heard of it. It is as much a part of Fenway lingo as The Monster, the Citgo sign, the triangle and, well, the Fenway Frank. When younger fans learn that the foul pole in ...

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Moon rovers are on board the lander, including a suitcase-sized "hopper" that will jump into a deep moon crater where scientists suspect there is ice to take photos. Two space mining missions are ...

A robotic moon lander known as Athena is scheduled to launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center with a mission to explore the moon’s south pole. The same rocket ...