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.

The two uncrewed craft were in an unofficial race to land at the moon's south pole about 75 miles apart. Luna-25 launched Aug. 11 and was expected to land Monday. Its crash location was not ...

These maps are updated versions of those released in February 2010. These two maps show that the character of terrains near the north pole differs strongly from those near the south pole.

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 3 years ago ...

An all-sky map zoomed in on the South Pole, showing dust only. In this view, the South Pole Wall is not visible, though it is near the Chamaeleon complex, a large star-forming region.

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 ...

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 sun is a big magnetic ...