While the moon once had a weak magnetic field generated by a small molten core, the team's research suggests it likely wouldn ...

NASA’s Juno spacecrafthas once again delivered breathtaking images of Jupiter, capturing the giant planet’s swirling storms ...

Whether you're a seasoned stargazer or a backyard observer with binoculars, the final week of May offers a treasure trove of celestial events.

Resilience launched on Jan. 15 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that also carried another private moon lander: Firefly ...

Our satellite is a little off-balance. GRAIL data show a mass asymmetry of a few percent between its near and far sides.

The optical illusion occurs because people are used to interpreting shadows as coming from an overhead light source. But that's not necessarily the orientation of spacecraft. In many satellite photos, ...

There have been proposed hypotheses as to how the Moon could have developed a core dynamo. For instance, a 2022 analysis suggested that in the first billion years, when the Moon was covered in molten ...

Discover interesting facts about how the moon formed, what it's made out of, and the many missions humans have launched to ...

Titan too has a tilt, but it's very small compared to its orbit around Saturn, just 0.3 degrees. Saturn, on the other hand, ...

Astronomers have calculated that the gas giant Jupiter used to be twice as big as it is now, based on the odd orbits of two ...