When a NASA spacecraft passes over Shackleton Crater on the moon and peers in, it sees this: a sea of blackness and nothing more. This 13-mile-wide crater lies close to the moon’s south pole ...

Athena will land in the south polar region of the moon, near the Shackleton Crater. Then, it will deploy several rover vehicles to explore the surface and take samples.

Athena will land very close to the ridge of the Shackleton crater, a region that is known as a peak of eternal sunshine. The Sun is low on the horizon but it is always visible, never setting ...

It is a bold move, as the US also has ambitions to establish bases at the Moon’s south pole – the Shackleton crater is prime real estate.

IM-2 is nicknamed Athena. With a four-day launch window that opens on 26 February, it aims to land on 6 March near Shackleton Crater, in the all-important south polar region of the moon where ...

The new image, taken on Feb. 5 by Andrew James McCarthy, frames the space station with Shackleton Crater, a famous landmark on the moon near its south pole. The site is a potential future landing ...

Intuitive Machine's next mission, IM-2, will land the Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment (PRIME-1) near Shackleton Crater.

The map below shows locations of permanently shadowed areas in the south pole out to 80 degrees south latitude (the literal south pole, located inside the rim of Shackleton crater, is at 90 ...

Traversing and mapping Shackleton Crater, which is one of the largest permanently shadowed regions on the moon, will be particularly challenging due to difficult topography — including steep ...

The landing site was near the Shackleton crater, where it’s sunshine nearly all the time. The Sun is always visible, hanging low on the horizon but never setting.