Moons

At 2.57 pm (11:57 GMT) on Saturday (Aug 20), Russian Space Agency Roscosmos declared its Luna-25 lander crashed while making its attempt to land on the south pole of the moon. The agency…

With its sensitive infrared cameras and high-resolution spectrometer, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is revealing new secrets of Jupiter's Galilean satellites, in particular Ganymede,…

Watch out Yosemite — the moon has its own impressive rock display. An enormous chunk of granite, measuring roughly 50 kilometers wide, may be buried beneath the lunar surface,…

Mass is mass is mass. Physicists have three different definitions of mass, all thought to be equivalent. Measurements of the distance between Earth and the moon confirm that…

A large formation of granite discovered below the lunar surface likely was formed from the cooling of molten lava that fed a volcano or volcanoes that erupted early in the Moon's history --…

The search for extraterrestrial life in our solar system just got more exciting. A team of scientists including Southwest Research Institute's Dr. Christopher Glein has discovered new…

Queenstown and Moon’s Blessing may fight out the finish of the Racing Patrons Trophy (1,200m), the feature event of the opening day races to be held here on Saturday (May 20). False rails…

The European Space Agency (ESA) has successfully launched on a historic mission to explore the moons of Jupiter, which scientists believe could play host to extraterrestrial…

JUICE will be traveling to the Jupiter system to investigate the icy moons around the planet. It will visit three of Jupiter's largest moons, Ganymede, Callisto, and Europa,…

NOORDWIJK, THE NETHERLANDS — Life might arise in the darkest of places: the moon of a planet wandering the galaxy without a star. The gravitational tug-of-war between a moon and…