The NASA flag. Credit: NASA As United States government agencies go, NASA is unique. It remains the only entity in the world to have landed humans on the moon. It sent robotic probes to every ...

Intuitive Machines’ Athena lunar lander slowed from 4,000 mph in lunar orbit as it descended for a landing attempt near the moon’s south pole Thursday, March 6, 2025. (Courtesy/NASA ...

a region near the moon's south pole. Scientists believe that water ice deposits and other resources can be found in surface samples that the lander will drill. NASA researchers are eager to study ...

Athena's landing was the closest a spacecraft has come to the south pole, just 100 miles away. That's where NASA is targeting for its first landing by astronauts since the 1960s and 1970s Apollo ...

Washington DC: US space agency NASA is all set for a landing on the moon's south pole on March 6. This mission will join the growing fleet of spacecraft missions, including from India, mapping the ...