Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Diagram shows the South Pole Telescope using the Cosmic Microwave Background to observe the distribution of dark matter. Ancient ...

A still image of the Moon and the southern portion of the SOFIA data. A new study using NASA’s and DLR’s now-retired Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) has pieced together the ...

Where will future Artemis astronauts land on the lunar south pole? This is what a recent study published in The Planetary Science Journal hopes to address as a team of researchers from Japan ...

The new map covers about one-quarter of the Earth-facing side of the lunar surface below 60 degrees latitude and extends to the moon's south pole. Given the large region covered, the researchers could ...

Where is the South Pole? -- Maps and mythologies -- Polar imaginations -- Pole-hunting -- Settling in at 'Ninety South' -- Highest, coldest, driest...? -- Looking up ...

Camp near the Geographic South Pole where all 360 lines of longitude meet and every direction points north. See the Ceremonial Pole and flags of the original Antarctic Treaty signatory nations.

"The more we learn about the distribution of dark matter, the closer we get to understanding its nature and its role in forming the universe that we live in today." When you purchase through links on ...

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. With ...