What is the current theory of how our universe began? Our current model for the early universe is known as the "hot Big Bang.

The earliest light in the universe has been traveling across space since just after the Big Bang. Known as the cosmic ...

The Solar Orbiter has delivered the "highest resolution image ever of the Sun’s south pole" according to the European Space ...

We Earthlings see the sun every day of our lives—but gaining a truly new view of our star is a rare and precious thing. So ...

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.

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter captured the first-ever images of the sun's south pole in March, which were ...

Discover how the ESA's Solar Orbiter captured the first direct images of the Sun's south pole, revealing new insights into its magnetic field and solar cycles. Learn about the mission, instruments, ...

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.

In 2020, SOFIA became the first mission to unambiguously detect water at the moon's south pole; researchers then calculated there to be about 12 ounces of water per one cubic meter of lunar soil.

Astronomers are excited to be poring over the first ever detailed geological map of the moon’s south polar region, where India’s Chandrayaan-3 lunar module, Vikram, touched down on August 23 ...

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 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.