Scientists found that some slopes on the Moon stay cold enough to hold ice. This could expand water sources for future space ...

An ambitious lunar mission is set to lift off today for a landing in March. The Intuitive Machines-2 (IM-2) mission carries Athena, a Nova-C class lunar lander, and is headed for the moon's south ...

[Related: Why scientists think it’s time to declare a new lunar epoch.] “The present study indicates that [such locations] offer a similar environment as polar sites for accumulating water ice ...

If all goes according to plan, the Athena lander will touch down near the moon's south pole on or around March 6.

A private US company says it has landed a spacecraft close to the Moon's South Pole but fears the machine is not upright. The Athena spacecraft is communicating with Earth, but is not in the "correct ...

Intuitive Machine's second mission to the moon, IM-2, is set to launch Wednesday evening from KSC. Onboard is NASA science.

In cold and permanently shadowed places at the lunar poles, it has long been hypothesized that there could be significant amounts of water ice. Lunar Trailblazer, which weighs about 440 pounds ...

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 prototype of the 'lunar regolith processing' system created by inventor Lolan Naicker was built using a barbecue wood pellet feeder, a domestic microwave oven, and an auger from B&Q ...

Intuitive Machines launches its second moon lander, which will use NASA and commercially developed tools to search for ice in the moon's crust.

"Is it molecular water? Is it water ice? Is it hydroxyl?" Dapremont says. Knowing that makes a big difference when it comes to harvesting the water. Lunar Trailblazer is one NASA's new class of ...

Bottoms of lunar polar craters may harbor ice patches Water will be a vital resource for astronauts on the moon Feb 26 (Reuters) - A dishwasher-sized NASA satellite was launched into space from ...