As astronauts prepare for south-polar landings, a new look at the Moon’s biggest crater points to a pivotal moment in lunar history—and to the rocks you’ll want sampled next. A study led by Jeffrey ...

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 the difficult and unprecedented task of setting the stage for a permanent ...

The Solar Orbiter has delivered the "highest resolution image ever of the Sun’s south pole" according to the European Space Agency (ESA). Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter ...

As recently as the 1990s, when the Greenland Ice Sheet and the rest of the Arctic region were measurably thawing under the climatic blowtorch of human-caused global warming, most of Antarctica’s vast ...

Global warming is awakening sleeping giants of ice at the South Pole as glaciers start to flow faster and surface melting increases.

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. Multi-temporal illumination map of the lunar south pole, Shackleton crater (19 kilometers diameter, or 12 miles) is ...

The Solar Orbiter has delivered the "highest resolution image ever of the Sun’s south pole", according to the European Space Agency (ESA). Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: ESA & NASA/Solar ...

NASA has tapped Blue Origin for a potential $190 million Commercial Lunar Payload Service task order to deliver the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover to the Moon’s south pole in late ...

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has acquired South Pole Santa, an original family holiday feature pitch from Chris Bruno and David Lee, who have inked a deal to pen the script. Details as to the plot of the film, ...

Are people on the South Pole walking upside down from the rest of the world? – Ralph P., U.S. When I was standing at the South Pole, I felt the same way I feel anywhere on Earth because my feet were ...

Students are stomping inside the Earth and Space Sciences Building at Stony Brook University. And, no, it’s not because they are part of a dance or exercise class. They are stomping near a seismometer ...