However, barely a meter away, the surface temperature ... in the paper—might be just as good places for water as the actual poles themselves. [Related: Why scientists think it’s time to ...

Grace isn't the only robot that caught a ride to the lunar surface on Athena. The lander is also carrying a small rover called MAPP (Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform), which was built by the ...

Athena will land in the moon's Mons Mouton region at 12:32 p.m. EST.

In cold and permanently shadowed places at the lunar poles ... 11.5 feet (3.5 meters) wide when its solar panels are fully deployed, is being sent to find and map this water on the moon's surface.

The 15-foot (4.7-meter) Athena will target a landing 100 miles (160 kilometers) from the lunar south pole. Just a quarter ... bottom while hunting for frozen water. It will be the first up-close ...

And it’s “the closest landing site to the moon’s south pole to date ... all the way to a meter (3.3 feet) depth,” Altemus said, describing how NASA’s water-hunting drill, called ...

The 15-foot-tall (4.6-meter-tall ... it means wherever you go on the south pole, you don’t have to dive into craters, you can probably extract water really, really quickly.” ...

Future lunar missions may have an easier time extracting water ice than previously believed, thanks to new findings from India’s Chandrayaan-3 lander. The research suggests that certain high-latitude ...

The lunar lander is aiming to reach the moon's south pole ... (20 meters) deep. Science instruments from Hungary and Germany will take measurements at the bottom while hunting for frozen water.

(AP) — A private lunar lander is no longer working after landing sideways in a crater near the moon’s south pole and its mission is over ... Athena missed its mark by more than 800 feet (250 meters) ...