Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This NASA image, showing areas of the moon’s south pole that are most likely to hold deposits of water ice, was assembled with ...

NASA is working right now to send American astronauts to the surface of the Moon in five years, and the agency has its sights set on a place no humans have ever gone before: the lunar South Pole.

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 ...

Scientists using Chandrayaan-2 radar data have identified strong signs of buried water ice in ultra-cold craters near the ...

The icy water at the Moon's South Pole, trapped in permanently shadowed craters, would not be the remnant of one or several ...

India became the first country to land at the moon’s south pole—a logistically challenging achievement expected to kick off a new era of space exploration. It joins the U.S., China and Russia in ...

NEW DELHI — India became the first country to land a spacecraft near the moon's south pole on Wednesday — a historic voyage to uncharted territory that scientists believe could hold vital reserves of ...

Russia’s first lunar mission in decades ended in failure on Sunday after its Luna-25 spacecraft crashed. WSJ explains why Russia was in a race with India to reach the unexplored south pole, and how ...

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 ...