NASA’s exploration of Jupiter’s moon Io revealed a world unlike any other. Beneath its fractured surface lies the most volcanically active body in the solar system — a place where molten lava erupts ...
The findings could have implications for NASA’s Artemis program, which aims to returns Americans to the lunar surface for the ...
Scientists have produced the first global map and analysis of small mare ridges (SMRs) on the moon, a characteristic geological feature of tectonic activity. Published in The Planetary Science Journal ...
A test of NASA's towering Space Launch System rocket uncovered another issue with the vehicle meant to launch astronauts on a ...
At just 500 kilometers across, Saturn's sixth-largest moon would fit comfortably inside the United Kingdom, with room to spare.
Researchers have uncovered more than a thousand previously unknown tectonic ridges across the Moon’s dark plains, showing the Moon is still contracting and reshaping itself. These features are among ...
What China found on the Moon has raised serious questions. During a historic mission, China made a surprising discovery on ...
Scientists have produced the first global map and analysis of small mare ridges (SMRs) on the moon, a characteristic ...
Smithsonian scientists have mapped thousands of young ridges across the lunar maria, which are large, basaltic plains on the ...
Many of us remember all too well our childhood bout of chickenpox: those itchy, scabby, red spots that appeared all over our ...
Alan Shepard’s playful experiment captured something equally important about exploration: the unmistakably human urge to improvise, joke, and celebrate achievement, even 3,80,000 kilometers from Earth ...