From the Moon’s south pole to an ice-covered ocean world, these space missions are slated for 2024 A planetary scientist shares six of the space missions she's most excited to follow this year ...

National Science Foundation, March 1, 2017, Airplane taxis down runway at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station; National Snow and Ice Data Center, accessed Dec. 23, Ice shelves; ...

Those who live at the South Pole approach the ice with a sense of awe that borders on religious conviction . By John Messick . Published May 29, 2023 3:59PM (EDT ...

A Dartmouth grad student is on a mission to find the oldest ice on the planet and to find it — he’s joined a team of scientists at the South Pole. Wind speeds there average 40 mph and ...

The researchers on South Africa’s SANAE IV outpost won’t be relieved until December, when temperatures at the South Pole are at their warmest for the year and seasonal ice storms pass.

In recent years, scientists have focused on the potential of the lunar south pole as a vast source of water ice. Now, new observations from China’s Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical ...

The Solar Orbiter spacecraft, a joint mission between the European Space Agency and NASA, is the first to venture into a ...

At the South Pole, there’s a science experiment that makes the Burj Khalifa—the world’s tallest building—look small. It’s called IceCube, and it’s built 2,500 meters down into the ...

The lunar south pole's most precious commodity. Interest in the lunar south pole as a landing site is mainly driven by the fact that scientists know the region hosts water in the form of ice.

THE CONVERSATION — The year 2023 proved to be an important one for space missions, with NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returning a sample from an asteroid and India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission ...