A still image of the Moon and the southern portion of the SOFIA data. A new study using NASA’s and DLR’s now-retired Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) has pieced together the ...

Where will future Artemis astronauts land on the lunar south pole? This is what a recent study published in The Planetary Science Journal hopes to address as a team of researchers from Japan ...

NASA has released a new mosaic of the Moon's southern pole. The mosaic was created using images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) and ShadowCam, a NASA instrument onboard the Korea ...

India's space program made double history today with the successful landing of its Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft in the moon’s mysterious south polar region. It's a twofold milestone: the first landing ...

The image is a combination of a number of images taken of Jupiter's south pole by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The image contains colors that are "close to" what the human eye would see from that ...

The lunar south pole is attracting intense attention from space agencies. Even NASA plans to land Artemis 3 astronauts there. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

The lunar south pole is emerging as a critical destination for international space exploration, driven by the prospect of discovering water resources and advancing scientific understanding, all ...

Just this once, it's OK to stare at the sun — provided you're looking at the European Space Agency's (ESA) newly released, history-making images of the solar south pole. Taken near the sun on March 23 ...

Excerpted from "Compass Lines: Journeys Toward Home" by John Messick (Porphyry Press, 2023). Reprinted with permission from Porphyry Press. Ice began hundreds of miles ahead of the continent, great ...

A new study using NASA’s and DLR’s now-retired Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) has pieced together the first detailed, wide-area map of water distribution on the Moon. With ...