Dam construction since 1835 has caused Earth's poles to "wander" away from the planet's rotational axis because of the ...

Research teams led by CAS institutions including the Institute of Geology and Geophysics (IGG) and the National Astronomical Observatories (NAOC), along with Nanjing University and others, have made ...

Over the past two centuries, humans have locked up enough water in dams to shift Earth's poles slightly away from the ...

North Charleston Academic Magnet High School students win first at international NASA contest aimed to research growing crops ...

At the University of Central Florida’s Exolith Lab, Dr. Phil Metzger and other university researchers have developed a ...

NASA is preparing for its most ambitious lunar mission ... to the Moon’s south pole. Plus, a bold asteroid mining mission is launching alongside, and a new telescope will map the entire universe in ...

The floor of the Lunar Solo is a more robust 40-denier (40D), and has a bathtub shape to help ensure water doesn't get in. The rear of the Lunar Solo has a 6-inch mesh portion between the floor ...

Lunar Prospector estimated the ice content in the polar regions of the moon to be 4.6% for the north pole and 3.0% for the south pole, estimating that about 330 million tons of water exists at the ...

The moon is littered with wreckage from many past failures. The 15-foot (4.7-meter) Athena will target a landing 100 miles (160 kilometers) from the lunar south pole.

The Athena lander in the CLPS mission will put drills, a mass spectrometer – a chemical analysis device – near the moon's south pole to search for lunar water ice.

Searching for Ice Beneath the Lunar’s Surface Ever since Apollo 11 brought the first astronauts to the moon in 1969, most lunar landings have centered around the moon’s equator. But the moon’s North ...

The VIPER rover will operate at the moon’s south pole to look for water ice. It can pivot each wheel independently and “swim” to get itself out of deep, fine sand.