After a month-long journey, Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander has successfully entered orbit around the Moon. After nearly a ...

Scientists have long thought that the South Pole-Aitken basin was formed by a shallow-angle impact, but new research suggests ...

That's good news for scientists and NASA, which is looking to land astronauts at the south pole on the near, Earth-facing ...

The stark contrast between the Moon's nearside and farside in topography, volcanic activity ... specifically from the South Pole-Aitken Basin— the largest and oldest lunar impact basin with the ...

Surveys the Moon from orbit and relays data back to Earth.

Earlier this week, the agency asked private companies for partnership proposals that would allow the rover to perform its planned science work near the lunar south pole.

"By deploying the FLIP rover on Griffin-1, we are advancing humanity’s future on the moon and enabling groundbreaking U.S. technology demonstrations at the lunar south pole." FLIP (which stands ...

“Nearly four billion years ago, an asteroid or comet flew over the lunar south pole, brushed by the mountain summits of Malapert and Mouton, and hit the lunar surface,” Kring said. “The ...

Projectiles flying faster than bullets from a blast 130 times bigger than the global nuclear stockpile helped form giant lunar canyons, according to a new study.

BEIJING -- China's Chang'e 7 lunar probe, scheduled for launch in 2026, will target the moon's south pole to search for water ice and test cutting-edge technologies critical for sustainable human ...