NASA and Elon Musk are intensifying efforts to secure territory on the Moon, setting off a new phase of geopolitical and commercial space rivalry. With nations racing to plant their flags on strategic ...

The moon’s south pole is a very different environment ... exactly which of the 13 areas will bear the next lunar flag, especially with NASA’s history with scrubbing launches in favor of ...

To ensure that the U.S. will plant its flag on the moon's south pole first, NASA signed a new $3 billion contract last year with Blue Origin, the space company owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos ...

China, meanwhile, has set its sights on landing on the lunar south pole by 2030, a move the United States is unlikely to let go unchallenged. On the other hand, the next NASA chief is slated to be ...

NASA's return to the moon, the Artemis Program, is targeting future astronaut landings near the lunar south pole where ice may be present in permanently shadowed craters — a potential source of ...

A new South Pole Safety Challenge has been launched, asking members of the public for help to design a Lunar Rescue SystemCredit: Nasa It's part of a $45,000 (around £35,550) prize pool for Nasa ...

NASA had already announced it was going to return to the lunar South Pole. But the specific sites, all in a cluster of six degrees latitude of the South Pole, were chosen, NASA said, because they ...

As part of this joint effort, Intuitive Machines will shift the landing site of its first mission to the lunar South Pole Region in support of NASA’s priority objectives. “Redirecting ...

But NASA’s first-ever rover mission to the lunar south pole will use a more familiar method of getting moving on Earth’s satellite: a pair of ramps. VIPER, which stands for Volatiles ...

As part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) program, Intuitive Machines will design and build a lander to launch to the moon’s south pole, and NASA will pay $117 million for it ...