A new camera at the South Pole Telescope has used the Cosmic Microwave Background, the first light to fill the universe, as a celestial treasure map that could lead to the secrets of dark matter.

In 2020, SOFIA became the first mission to unambiguously detect water at the moon's south pole; researchers then calculated there to be about 12 ounces of water per one cubic meter of lunar soil.

Meet the first woman of color to explore the South Pole solo. Preet Chandi, a 32-year-old Army officer, completed a 700-mile journey in Antarctica. February 21, 2022 More than ...

Now, scientists have produced the most detailed 3D map yet of the Moon’s south pole. It will allow them to better map out areas of perpetual light and permanent shadow and analyse the terrain to ...

A planned driving trip to Antarctica's South Pole along the ice road built by the United States sparked concern Thursday about growing commercialization of the frozen continent, where visitor ...

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 ...

Roland Huntford, the British author of the 1999 book “The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen’s Race to the South Pole,” contends that the Norwegian’s steady temperament and expert ...

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.