Ancient cosmic light that has uniformly filled the universe since around 400,000 years after the Big Bang could act like a treasure map that guides scientists to the secrets of dark matter. The Cosmic ...

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 ...

A shoebox-sized NASA-funded cubesat should create the most detailed, high-resolution map of lunar water ice ever attempted. Now scheduled for launch in 2020* as a secondary payload on NASA’s Space ...

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 ...

Things are heating up in the icy south, and not just because of climate change. We check in with this season's polar ...

Climate scientists long thought Antarctica’s interior may not be very sensitive to warming, but our new research shows a dramatic change. Over the past 30 years, the South Pole has been one of the ...

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 ...