In groundbreaking experiments, carbothermal reduction fuels new possibilities for sustaining life and fueling spacecraft far ...

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 impact thousands of years ago.

Now, scientists believe that they have figured it out. Two huge canyons scored into the surface of the Moon were created in ...

Scientists studying Saturn's icy moon, Enceladus, have discovered that its ocean forms layers that slow the upward movement ...

The moon's Schrödinger impact basin near the south pole holds two grand canyons formed by an enormous asteroid collision 3.8 ...

New measurements indicate that the Moon formed from material ejected from the Earth's mantle with little contribution from Theia. In addition, the findings support the idea that water could have ...

Scientists have discovered that deep trenches on Uranus’ moon Ariel might be pathways for material from its interior to reach ...

Ahead of Valentine's Day, prepare to be dazzled by the lunar heart, created by the interplay of light and shadow on our Moon.

Three experiments will study how lunar dust adheres to various materials, which could inform future attempts to build a Moon base. There is also a computer that will test strategies for coping ...

Two canyons that splay out from a vast asteroid crater on the moon may have been quickly formed by chains of impacts that followed the initial one ...