Current and upcoming Moon missions focus on exploring the lunar south pole in particular ... This would have been a modular base somewhat akin to the International Space Station, with nine ...

China has chosen payloads from a range of international partners to fly on the country’s Chang’e-8 lunar south pole mission, expanding its space diplomacy.

People on the project live and work in this building. In the winter the South Pole Station houses 40-50 people, but in the summer there are about 2-300 people in the camp. During the summer season ...

China's ambitious Chang'e-8 mission will aim to build a lunar base, and explore the use of a robotic arm and potentially a humanoid robot sent up to the moon to explore its surface ...

Recent allegations of violence at the SANAE IV Antarctic research base highlight the urgent need to improve safety in remote and extreme places.

The NSF is beginning an operational retreat from Antarctica. Both the aging U.S. facilities and the research itself are ...