As astronauts prepare for south-polar landings, a new look at the Moon’s biggest crater points to a pivotal moment in lunar ...

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 ...

U.S. astronauts who return to the moon’s surface in the years ahead for the first time in more than half a century will have ...

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 ...

A topographic model of the Moon using a color-scale from purple (low) to red (high) based on data collected by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and Kaguya by the Japanese Space Agency. This is a ...

This striking composite shot of the lunar south pole appears in National Geographic Magazine's special space issue out on Sept. 19. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

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NASA has awarded Firefly Aerospace a $177 million contract to deploy payloads to the Moon’s south pole. “Firefly is honored to support another NASA CLPS task order as a proven, reliable partner for ...

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 ...

The cosmic microwave background — the universe’s oldest light — has traversed vast distances before reaching us. During its extended journey, gravitational forces from massive cosmic structures caused ...