Feb. 17, 2026, marks the beginning of the year of the fire horse in the traditional Chinese calendar and other Lunar New Year ...

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 ...

SPRING Festival or the Chinese Lunar New Year is the biggest festival in China. It takes place during the time that the northern hemisphere starts its gradual warming, having already passed the ...

As next-generation telescopes map this outer frontier, astronomers are bracing for discoveries that could reveal hidden planets, strange structures, and clues to the solar system’s chaotic youth.

This post features biographies and notable quotes from oral history interviews with planetary geophysicist Lynnae Quick, ...

For two weeks, medical experts monitor the astronauts as they remain indoors, live in isolation, and avoid physical touch, all to prevent harmful microbes from traveling to space.

As final preparations ramp up for Artemis II — a mission that will send four astronauts farther into space than any crew has ever traveled — NASA is giving the public a chance to take part in the ...

Far from the Sun’s heat, orbiting the outer planets of the solar system, are moons with oceans of liquid water beneath their frozen surfaces. Keith Cooper finds out how planetary scientists are ...

Many icy moons in the outer solar system are believed to harbor vast subsurface oceans sandwiched between thick ice shells and rocky cores. Since 2008, the methane-shrouded moon Titan has been thought ...

Among the solar system’s hundreds of known moons, few are as enticing as the handful that scientists believe have a global ocean lurking below their crusty surface. But two of these hidden oceans may ...

Multiple impacts on Earth might better explain our moon’s origin than a single giant impact 4.5 billion years ago – and could help solve one of its biggest mysteries. But Earth and the moon are ...

Earth may have a moon today because a nearby neighbor once crashed into us, a new analysis of Apollo samples and terrestrial rocks reveals. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...