South Pole

The new National Geographic miniseries Secrets of the Penguins visits the type of world Avatar filmmaker James Cameron is well known for: unfamiliar, alien, and unforgiving.

James Cameron wasn't near the penguins this time around, but he is extremely familiar with their environment. "When I went to Antarctica myself, I had a Nikon still camera adapted to the cold with special lubricants," he tells Popular Science. "I went to the South Pole and the film shattered in my hand when I […] The post Filmmaker James Cameron on penguins, arctic cold, and lowlight cameras appeared first on…

Scientists have hypothesized since the 1960s that the Sun is a source of ingredients that form water on the Moon. When a stream of charged particles known as

Fram2 is the first human spaceflight to explore the Earth's polar regions. It launched on top of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

Over 4.5 billion years, volcanoes, asteroids, and climate change have wiped out millions of species.

The Blue Ghost moon lander from Firefly Aerospace — the first private lunar lander to pull off a fully successful mission — has gone quiet after two weeks.

A highly pathogenic strain of bird flu is spreading south along the Antarctic Peninsula and could devastate populations of penguins and other seabirds

The first-ever subsurface measurements of lunar temperature showed wide differences, which could help lead further expeditions to possible water sources.

The mission is over.

The news came less than 24 hours after the botched landing attempt by Houston-based Intuitive Machines.

Intuitive Machines' Athena moon lander will deploy two small rovers, a rocket-powered "hopper," and use a powerful drill to probe the lunar surface.

Landing on the moon is hard, but Intuitive Machines will try for a gentle touchdown of its IM-2 Athena lander packed with rovers, a drone and a NASA moon drill.

An impressive touchdown.

From digitally enhancing accents to resurrecting the dead, AI is reshaping film in pursuit of impossible standards.

The next set of NASA science and technology demonstrations is on its way to the lunar surface, where they will gather data about Earth's nearest neighbor and

If all goes according to plan, the landers could collect moon samples before the end of spring.

The small satellite mission will map the Moon to help scientists better understand where its water is, what form it's in, how much is there, and how it

The lunar lander Athena - Intuitive Machines' 2nd mission to the moon - launched toward the moon on February 26, 2025, from Kennedy Space Center. The post New lunar lander Athena launches to the moon first appeared on EarthSky.

A robotic moon lander known as Athena is scheduled to launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center with a mission to explore the moon's south pole. The same rocket will also launch a moon-mapping satellite developed by NASA, known as the Lunar Trailblazer.

A robotic moon lander is about to launch on a SpaceX rocket. It's the second lunar mission for a private company that last year became the first to successfully land on the moon's surface.