The amount of water ice under the lunar surface has been a source of debate ever since those 2018 findings. Some scientists believe there is a very low amount – not enough to maintain a colony.

After the loss of competing Russian Luna-25 lander, India's Chandrayaan-3 is set to hunt for water ice in the moon's unexplored south pole region.

NASA is gearing up for a bold new era of lunar exploration with three advanced instruments set to investigate the Moon’s ...

"Space ice" contains tiny crystals and is not a completely disordered material like liquid water, as previously assumed, ...

Map of water ice types on Europa SwRI. According to the researchers, this region of fractured surface materials hints at geological processes pushing up materials from below. "Our data showed ...

Scientists have unveiled the most detailed map of Antarctica without ice, revealing its hidden mountains, canyons, and geological features. The new Bedmap3 dataset helps researchers understand ice ...

The former will map the minerals and water on the Moon’s surface—including the stuff in its craters, whose shadows cloak their bottoms in darkness and whose depths are prospective harbors for ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers from Johns Hopkins University (JHU) and elsewhere have detected water ice in a debris disk around HD 181327—a young star located within ...

NASA has canceled a $450 million program to map water ice deposits on the moon after cost overruns and scheduling delays. That program, called Viper — the Volatiles Investigating Polar ...