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 ...

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 ...

A colossal northern asteroid impact billions of years ago likely shaped the Moon’s south polar region and explains its uneven ...

Map showing regions where Young has been working with NSF COLDEX. This work took place at the US South Pole Station in East ...

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Editor’s note: On Thursday, Feb. 26, the Odysseus lander touched down near the moon's South Pole and began communicating with Earth. Astrophysicists at CU Boulder will be part of the first United ...

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 ...