As the Artemis II launch window opens, NASA is looking beyond this fly-around mission to the moon’s south pole, where water ...

China’s Chang’e-7 arrives at spaceport for lunar south pole exploration mission China’s multi-element Chang’e-7 lunar spacecraft has arrived at Wenchang spaceport for launch preparations ahead of a ...

NASA is joining international partners to hunt for ice on the moon in support of future human exploration. The agency is ...

On the surface, Antarctica’s vast ice sheet appears still and unchanging. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), collaborating ...

Monet Eliastam became the first American woman to ski solo to the South Pole, completing the 702-mile trek on Jan. 2. Inspired by another female explorer, she began training in April 2023 for an ...

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 ...

The North Pole and the South Pole are the two coldest places on Earth on average. But which one is colder? Living in the Northern Hemisphere, we often think of the North Pole as super cold, but the ...

With the Chandrayaan 3 and Chang’e 6 missions to the Moon’s southern high latitudes, a wealth of new data has allowed researchers to investigate the polar region and the South-Pole Aitken basin in ...