A rocket carrying NASA technology will blast off for the unexplored lunar south pole - part of an Earth-wide drive to find a crucial substance: water. Moon missions have historically been ...

Among the instruments on board are a hopping spacecraft, multiple rovers and a drill that will dig into the moon’s surface to hunt for water. Athena’s landing site near the lunar south pole is ...

They may work extensively with moon magic, using the lunar cycle ... or finding sacred spaces in unexpected urban corners.

Rather, the moon is wet, abundant with water that is largely stored away in the form of ice in the forbidding craters at its poles. That is why when NASA next sends astronauts to the moon’s ...

Scientists announced earlier this week that they have discovered water inside tiny beads of glass scattered across the moon, suggesting that one day it could be extracted and used by the ...

Chandrayaan-3's Chandra's Surface Thermophysical Experiment (ChaSTE) achieved unprecedented in-situ temperature measurements at the Moon's south ... and potential water-ice deposits, which are ...

Future astronauts traveling to the moon may have easier access to life-sustaining water and extractable ice than previously thought, according to new research. A team of scientists led by Durga ...