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 ...

"'Lunar Horizons' is an immersive, 3D reimagination of a future international lunar mission to the moon's south pole. As a ...

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 ...

Jupiter's moon Io is the most volcanically active place in the solar system. Io, as seen by the Galileo spacecraft. Credit: JPL Io, Europa, and Ganymede are Jupiter’s moons arranged in orbits. Due to ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has been investigating Jupiter's moon Io, the most volcanically active body in the solar system, and ...

This is the outcome of the inexorable force of our planet’s gravity, which has slowed the moon’s spin and moved our satellite ...

The Lunar Environment Monitoring Station (LEMS) is one of the first three potential payloads NASA selected for the Artemis 3 mission, which will land humans on the moon in 2026 for the first time ...

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 ...