The Moon, for most intents and purposes, is naked, bare, and exposed to the vacuum of space. But Earth's satellite does indeed have a blanket of gasses; thin and tenuous, but persistent enough to be ...

Volcanoes were erupting on the mysterious far side of the moon billions of years ago just like on the side that we can see, new research confirms. Researchers analyzed lunar soil brought back by China ...

What is a “black moon”? Contrary to its somewhat ominous name, the "black moon" is nothing threatening. It occurs when two new moons occur in the same month of the civil calendar. As you may know, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A space probe flying past Mars captured images of the red planet's small, mysterious moon. While on a flyby of Mars, Hera was able ...

Scientists have come up with a new theory about what is causing mysterious swirls on the Moon’s surface. The latest theory involves underground lava, magnetized rocks, and magnetic anomalies. Lunar ...

Its proximity to our planet and the fact that it has been already visited by humans makes the Moon less appealing to space dreamers than Mars, for instance. That's because we tend to be under the ...

The tiny moon, Amalthea, can be seen orbiting the gas giant against a backdrop of its famous Great Red Spot, but you'll need to squint. Reading time 2 minutes Oh, there it is. Jupiter’s unassuming ...

Previously unpublished photos of Mars' moon Phobos hint that the mysterious satellite may actually be a trapped comet — or perhaps just a piece of one, along with its twin moon Deimos. When you ...

A space probe flying past Mars captured images of the red planet's small, mysterious moon. While on a flyby of Mars, Hera was able to use three of its imaging instruments to capture images of Deimos, ...