The Ice Memory Foundation is preparing for the upcoming transport of ice cores from mountain glaciers to the Ice Memory ...

Japan on Friday aborted its mission to achieve its first soft landing on the Moon after losing contact with its spacecraft, ...

site testing program on the Antarctic Plateau. The results of this site testing program are presented. The observations show that the mid‐infrared sky brightness at the South Pole Station is much less ...

TOKYO—Japan’s hopes of achieving its first soft landing on the Moon by a private company were dashed Friday when the mission ...

The IM-2 mission will investigate water ice at the South Pole by using a lander-mounted ice drill and a robotic “hopper.” The mission will land on Mons Mouton Plateau, a flat mountain near ...

The touchdown on the moon is expected at 4:17am Japanese time on Friday (9.17pm CAT Thursday) and will be streamed on the ...

Vikram landed in the lunar south pole's Shaksgam crater region, while Athena will target a different area near the Mons Mouton plateau. Both missions highlight the growing interest in the Moon's ...

Pakistan, with over 7,000 glaciers, faces a dual threat: glacial retreat and glacial lake outburst floods. Warming temperatures have formed more than 3,000 glacial lakes — 33 deemed dangerous. Over ...