Scientific research happens at all of the stations. At the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, scientists work on the South Pole Telescope and BICEP telescope, both of which study the cosmic ...

The latter manned station is called the International Lunar ... second attempt at performing a soft landing on the Moon’s south pole with the Chandrayaan-3 mission, which is part of its larger ...

A day after a live webcast captured a somber-looking mission control room in the minutes surrounding its planned Thursday ...

The new image, taken on Feb. 5 by Andrew James McCarthy, frames the space station with Shackleton Crater, a famous landmark on the moon near its south pole. The site is a potential future landing spot ...

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. A SpaceX launch Wednesday night sent both ...

The initial roadmap for the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS), jointly led by ... will be completed around 2035 ...

A robotic moon lander known as Athena is scheduled to launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center with a mission to explore the moon’s south pole. The same rocket ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — (AP) — 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.

It is located at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole station in Antarctica. The design of the SPT emphasizes careful control of spillover and scattering, to minimize noise and false signals due to ground ...