JAXA small lunar landing demonstrator "SLIM ". Watch how it travels to the moon's surface in this animated explainer. Credit: ...
Huge "tiger stripe" fault lines seen on Saturn's moon Enceladus raise hopes that a "long-lived" ocean containing potential ...
A new model of Enceladus "tiger stripe" fractures and their connection with the moon of Saturn's ice geysers and subsurface ...
Imagery from the solar-powered spacecraft provides close-ups of intriguing features on the hellish Jovian moon. Scientists on ...
Because the moon formed fast and hot ... for the zones of dense titanium-rich material predicted by computer simulation models of lunar overturn. While the detection of lunar gravity anomalies ...
The moon’s formation. As hype over the April 8 eclipse — another ... whether it lodged into Earth head-on or skidded the crust and upper mantle. “The best simulation we’re reproducing now, is an ...
A team of the University of Arizona believed that when the Moon came into being, it was covered with a hot magma ocean, which gradually cooled down and formed the outer layers such as crust and ...
With the Artemis missions that will return humans to the surface of the moon within the next two years, more investment is being announced. (NASA/The Associated Press) The U.S. formed its National ...
Earlier this year, researchers discovered that a vast liquid ocean lurks beneath the icy shell of Saturn's tiny moon, Mimas. Now the same team may have discovered how it was created. New research ...
Though it's still seven years from reaching Jupiter, the JUICE mission is proceeding apace — and a recent test-run simulated the mission's spacecraft flying by the Jovian icy moon, Callisto.