"But Antarctica is not an apolitical human paradise with untouched nature—a sort of continent for scientific inquiry alone.

Timelapse satellite imagery showed the aurora australis dancing over the Southern Ocean between Antarctica and Australia on March 24.The Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) ...

A team of international scientists compiled decades of data to create a map showing the topography of Antarctica with the ice ...

Like bar magnets, Earth has a north magnetic pole and a south magnetic pole. The lines of Earth’s magnetic field point from one pole to the other. When the solar wind approaches Earth ...

The lander made its attempt at a landing near the Moon's Mons Mouton, a flat-topped mountain roughly 100 miles from the south pole, around noon on Thursday. But things didn't quite go as planned.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A private lunar lander is no longer working after landing sideways in a crater near the moon’s south pole and its mission is over, officials said Friday. The news came ...

Where did IM-2 land on the moon? The IM-2 landed in the lunar south pole region, roughly 820 feet from its intended landing site in the moon's Mons Mouton region. The area is thought to contain ...

It touched down at a site roughly 160 km from the lunar south pole. “We don’t believe we’re in the correct attitude on the surface of the moon, yet again,” Steve Altemus, CEO of the ...

Intuitive Machines said it was uncertain whether its Athena lander was upright near the moon’s south pole — standing 15 feet (4.7 meters) tall — or lying sideways like its first spacecraft ...

Athena was designed to land near the Moon’s South Pole, a region rich in scientific and resource opportunities. Its designated landing site, Mons Mouton, is approximately 160 kilometers from the ...

The Houston-based company is targeting no earlier than 12:32 pm ET (1732 GMT) at Mons Mouton, a plateau near the lunar south pole—farther ... equipped with magnetic wheels, will cling to MAPP ...

The sun released a powerful stream of plasma on February 25 that is set to slam into Earth tonight, colliding with the magnetic field ... around the Earth's north pole called the auroral zone.