If all goes well, the probe will land near the Moon's south pole next week in Malapert A, a crater that's a satellite of the 43-mile-wide Malapert Crater, and spend about a week there. The mission ...

"The six Nasa payloads and six commercial payloads expect to operate on the lunar surface for seven days before the Sun sets on our landing site at Malapert A Crater on the south pole of the Moon ...

A private company based in Houston is set to land a craft on the moon Odysseus is set to touch down at 6:24pm ET at a crater called Malapert A READ MORE: SpaceX launches first US moon lander ...

It had landed next to a huge Moon mountain, called the Malapert. This landing location is the most southerly point on the Moon a spacecraft has ever been. The landing location is especially ...

known as Malapert. It is the southernmost point on the Moon ever visited by a spacecraft, and scientists think there could be frozen water nearby which could be vital to future missions.

The nine landing regions, which NASA released in a photo Monday and were assessed for their "science value and mission availability" near the moon's south pole, include Peak near Cabeus B; Haworth; ...