Apollo landed on bright lunar plains, but Artemis is being aimed toward the lunar South Pole, where astronauts could face ...

An annotated version of the opening image, the arrow indicates a boulder track. Faint horizontal lines are camera artifacts that will eventually be removed once we have obtained a robust inflight ...

The U.S. and China are each planning to land in the Moon’s Shackleton crater this year. Whoever gets there first will secure the best access to its resources. Reading time 3 minutes The interior of ...

Cold, dark crater floors near the Moon's south pole may hold one of space exploration's most useful prizes: water ice. Yet those same places sit in permanent darkness, with temperatures dropping below ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. We're ...

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spends a fair deal of its time photographing craters. Granted, that's par for the course on the Moon, and not every lunar pot mark or meteoroid impact is worth ...

NASA released a stunning new image from the moon's south pole, an area the agency plans to explore with robotic and human explorers. This mosaic of the Shackleton Crater was created by two cameras ...

The Chang'e 7 mission is aiming for a coveted spot on the lunar south pole, one that made the list of NASA's candidate landing regions. Reading time 2 minutes China is planning to send its next lander ...

China's next robotic moon mission is scheduled to launch later this year, helping set the stage for the nation's planned multi-phased lunar outpost. The Chang'e 7 mission is on tap to reconnoiter the ...

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This image, taken by the advanced Moon Imaging Experiment (AMIE) on board ESA’s SMART-1 spacecraft, shows crater Shackleton on the Moon. AMIE obtained this image on 13 January 2006 – close to the time ...