The search for water on the moon is about to take a massive leap into new territory as NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer orbiter and the latest Intuitive Machines lunar lander get ready to launch. These ...

IM-2 follows the successful IM-1 mission, which landed on the moon but tipped over. IM-2 seeks to discover water on the moon's south pole. The second American spacecraft headed toward a moon ...

NASA launched the Lunar Trailblazer satellite to map water deposits on the moon, focusing on permanently shadowed craters near the poles. Weighing 440 pounds, it uses advanced instruments to ...

NASA, the primary customer for the lunar mission, is poised to deploy water-hunting technology that will drill beneath the moon's surface and extract lunar soil – known as regolith – for testing.