Titan is the only moon in our solar system with a significant atmosphere. Now we have a very good idea of how this dense ...

The IM-2 mission will test lunar mobility, resource prospecting and the first-ever cellular network on the moon.

"This is the most powerful volcanic event ever recorded on the most volcanic world in our solar system — so that's really saying something." ...

An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an ...

Though the planets are always “aligned,” seeing more than four in the sky is more uncommon. February’s lineup is a chance to ...

In a nutshell Scientists found pristine salt minerals in asteroid Bennu samples that formed in a specific sequence as ancient ...

The RPS uses two Stirling engines to convert the heat generated by the decay of Plutonium-238 (Pu-238) into electricity.

On Dec. 27, 2024, NASA's Juno spacecraft swooped by the volcanic world Io. It witnessed a giant eruption.

NASA’s Juno mission found Io’s biggest volcanic eruption ever. The explosion was stronger than all Earth’s power plants ...

Loki Patera is 202 kilometres (126 mi) in diameter, covers 20,000 sq km (7,700 sq mi), and was the largest volcanic feature found on Io until these new observations revealed the hot spot in the south ...

offering insights that could reshape our understanding of the Earth-Moon system and the broader solar system. The ... Dec. 18, 2024 — Scientists recently led a team that found, for the first ...

However, this almost-mini-moon is still special as it is potentially ... Robert Jedicke, a specialist emeritus on solar system bodies at the University of Hawaii’s Institute for Astronomy ...