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ISRO’s ambitious lineup of missions include Chandrayaan-4, Chandrayaan-5 and Gaganyaan — likely within the end of this decade!
India is launching ambitious space missions. Chandrayaan-4 will collect lunar samples. Chandrayaan-…
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Trump's first term avoided a fight in the South China Sea. It's only getting harder.
Donald Trump faces a more confrontational China in the South China Sea in his second term, escalati…
Thibault Spirlet
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Efforts by the US to counter China in the South China Sea could backfire
The US could ramp up efforts to counter China in the South China Sea but that comes with risks, sec…
Thibault Spirlet
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An EV just became the first vehicle to drive from the North to the South Pole
Chris and Julie Ramsey arrived at the South Pole on December 15 on their "Pole-to-Pole" challenge, …
Tom Carter
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China is closing a South China Sea surveillance gap with a new radar made to spot stealth aircraft, satellite images suggest
The system, purported to have advanced counter-stealth capabilities, could challenge how US forces …
Chris Panella
Why Russia is racing India to the moon's south pole
Russia launched its first lunar mission in 47 years, while mired in its war against Ukraine. The co…
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Chandrayaan-3 undergoes last Moon-bound maneouvre, prepares for propulsion and lander module seperation
India's ambitious third Moon mission's spacecraft Chandrayaan-3 on Wednesday successfully underwent…
PTI
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South Pole Secret! Massive network of prehistoric valleys, lakes and hills found deep under Antarctica
Antarctica might be a vast ice sheet today, but it wasn't always so. Portions of the southern conti…
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Why Russia and India both crashed near the moon's south pole before India nailed the first soft landing there
Moon landings are rapid, complex, uncertain events where mission operators have no ability to inter…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA scientist says there could be microbial life hiding in dark craters on the moon's south pole
Extreme microbes on Earth have demonstrated they can survive harsh conditions similar to the lunar …
Jessica Orwig
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India wants to fly its own astronauts to the moon, after becoming the first nation to land near the lunar south pole
India's prime minister confirmed plans to send people to the moon as the nation celebrated the hist…
Marianne Guenot
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India's moon lander detected movement near the lunar south pole. It could be the first signs of a moonquake in nearly 50 years.
India is the first country to land near the lunar south pole. Shortly after touchdown, the lander d…
Grace Eliza Goodwin,Jessica O…
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Russia is racing to beat the US, India, and China to the south pole of the moon in its first lunar mission since the 70s
Russia hasn't launched a lunar mission since 1976. It hopes to be the first to carry out a soft lan…
Marianne Guenot
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India's moon lander is the first to study the lunar south pole region up close. Here are 5 scientific discoveries it has already made.
India's Vikram lander and Pragyan rover have already discovered evidence of moonquakes and the pres…
Grace Eliza Goodwin
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2 workers at a remote Antarctic research station describe life cut off from the world, from extreme cold to chips that never go stale
Staff at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station are about as far from civilization as you can be. Bu…
Marianne Guenot
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Living in Antarctica means no streaming thanks to slow internet that's only up 5 hours a day, according to a man documenting life on a remote research station
The Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station only gets internet by satellite. But that doesn't keep people…
Marianne Guenot
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An exhausting TikTok reveals what it's like to take out the trash in the South Pole, where it's dark for six months of the year and temperatures can reach 70 degrees below zero
When you live in Antarctica, one of the coldest and most isolated places on Earth, daily routines l…
Melissa Wiley
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NASA is sending a water-hunting lunar rover to a shadowy crater on the moon's south pole
NASA's VIPER rover will descend into permanently shadowed craters on the moon's south pole, where t…