Earth phases occur opposite to moon phases ... Because sunlight at the moon's South Pole skims the surface horizontally, it brushes crater rims, but doesn't always reach their floors.

Current and upcoming Moon missions focus on exploring the lunar south pole in particular, with frozen water presumed to exist in deep craters at both poles. All of which raises the question of we ...

Scientists proposed an explanation for the formation of Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck near the lunar south pole, which ...

China's Chang'e-7 lunar probe, scheduled for launch in 2026, will target the moon's south pole to search for water ice and ...

The robotic “flying detector” will be deployed to the lunar south pole as part of China’s Chang’e-7 mission, which aims to bring the country closer to landing astronauts on the moon within ...

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...

The possibility of repeating the mission of landing on the Moon’s south pole in 2025-2026 can be one of the options," Roscosmos stressed. A Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with the Luna-25 automatic ...

IM's target is at 80 degrees South, a mere 300km from the south pole proper ... small stainless steel balls to represent the Moon's different phases through a month. And there'll even be a ...

China is advancing lunar exploration with the Chang'e-7 mission, deploying a flying robot to the moon's south pole to hunt for water. This mission utilizes a six-legged, rocket-propelled robot ...

Chandrayaan-2 had failed in its lunar phase when its lander 'Vikram' crashed ... a few degrees latitude north or south of the lunar equator. The Moon's south pole region is also being explored ...

(Representative pic) China has announced its plans to send a smart robotic "flyer detector" to Moon's south pole in a bid to search for water. According to the South China Morning Post, Chinese ...