Around 2015, astronomers took on the painstaking task of stitching together Hubble Space Telescope images of this galaxy, but that effort had focused on the galaxy's northern half. Still, however, the ...

Skywatchers can spot Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars in the night sky with the naked eye, but two other planets might need a ...

Data from NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) was used to create a water distribution map of the area near the moon's south pole. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center ...

Soon, the Gaia spacecraft will leave orbit and begin its retirement in the depths of space. In the last 10 years, it has ...

An artist's conception for what the SPHEREx telescope might look like once ... is scheduled to launch sometime in 2025 and land at the lunar south pole, according to NASA. The lunar landing ...

An expanded evacuation order for the Palisades Fire now includes areas just west of Interstate 405, including much of the neighborhood of Brentwood, according to an update and map issued by the ...

Released around 400,000 years after the Big Bang, it is a map that has been used by astronomers ... Astronomers using the South Pole Telescope (SPT) performed high-precision measurements of ...

By Eve Sampson Chile’s president visited the South Pole on Friday in a bid to fortify his country’s territorial claims to part of Antarctica, as competition in the region is growing bit by bit.

The teaser poses an intriguing question: “If you are standing directly on Antarctica’s South Pole, facing north, which direction would you be facing if you took one step back?" The post also included ...

Jan. 4 (UPI) --Chilean President Gabriel Boric has become the first leader in the Americas to visit the South Pole, his government confirmed. Boric arrived at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station ...