The new data is particularly exciting for NASA, which hopes to leverage the Moon’s resources — notably water ice embedded in the soil — to help future astronauts live and work on the lunar ...

There has been directly observed definitive evidence of water ice on the Moon’s surface. These ice deposits are patchily distributed and could possibly be ancient. At the southern pole, most of the ...

Frigid areas on the moon where the sun never shines are younger than the craters they reside in and, according to new research, likely host less water ice than previously thought. These areas ...

For the first time, scientists have found what they say is definitive evidence of water ice on the surface of the moon. The discovery suggests that future lunar expeditions might have a readily ...

It was not until 2018 and 2020 that this was confirmed. In 2018, data from the Moon Mineralogy Mapper confirmed locations of water ice in permanently shadowed regions on the Moon. In 2020 ...

The call from the moon is clear – try and find my water ice. There is the prospect that oodles of water ice could be lurking in the bottom of south polar craters on the moon. Forgive the cosmic ...

A shadowy harbour: Because the Sun strikes the Moon at such a low angle at its poles, sunlight never reaches the floors of some deep craters. These permanently shadowed regions trap volatile chemicals ...

“Based on the temperature profiles from ChaSTE as ground truth, [we] can model the migration and stability of the water ice for different representative locations on the moon,” says Prasad.

Observations from instruments on orbiters and probes found that the Moon’s north and south poles contain over 1.3 trillion pounds (600 billion kilograms) of water ice. But a new study published ...

The icy surface of Jupiter 's moon Europa appears to be constantly changing, new data from the James Webb Space Telescope has ...

NASA, preparing to establish a permanent presence on the moon, has detected deposits of water ice on the moon "more extensive than previously thought." An instrument on the space agency's Lunar ...