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MIT's sensor technologies at the Moon's south pole are set to enhance astronaut training and support long-term lunar sustainability for future space missions.
According to their morphology and location, the massifs are categorized as unlikely or likely remnants of SPA ring structures (black and white, respectively) and relatively intact segments of an ...
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.
You may be surprised to know that the north and south pole aren’t located in specific fixed locations. While the North Pole is actually located in the Arctic Ocean and the South Pole is in ...
The Sun's polar regions are pretty busy and chaotic places, but our newfound views of its south pole will help predict future solar activity.
After the loss of competing Russian Luna-25 lander, India's Chandrayaan-3 is set to hunt for water ice in the moon's unexplored south pole region.
A radiance map from Solar Orbiter’s SPICE instrument shows the location of carbon ions in the region of the sun’s atmosphere where the temperature abruptly rises.
India's Chandrayaan-3 mission is revealing new insights about the lunar South Pole. The US, China and Russia all plan future missions to this region – so what makes it so fascinating?
A space probe has delivered world-first images of the Sun's south pole—and this is only the start towards deeper solar science.
You might be scared if you heard Earth’s North Pole and South Pole were about to flip positions. The sun is about to do the same thing, and it’s not a worry for us.
The promise of water draws countries and companies to the moon’s south pole. Russia’s Luna-25 spacecraft crash is the second failed landing this year.