Studying Titan's clouds will help scientists understand why Saturn's largest moon is the only moon in the solar system with an atmosphere. Evolution of clouds on Titan over 30 hours between November 4 and November 6, 2022, as seen by Webb …
We know there's water on the Moon, but questions remain about how it got there, where it's stored, and how it moves around. In a new study, scientists from China have identified tiny glass beads in the lunar soil as potential places where w…
Using cameras set to monitor the moon, Daichi Fujii, curator of the Hiratsuka City Museum, recorded an event that occurred on February 23 at 20:14:30.8 Japan Standard Time (7:14 a.m. EST, or 1114 GMT). The event appears to be a meteorite impact, a…
Researchers reported auroras around Jupiter’s two largest Galilean moons for the first time and found new features in the auroras of volcanic Io and icy Europa. The auroras are visible on the moons during an eclipse, said an author of the studie…
For the first time ever, researchers have grown plants in lunar soil — a huge achievement that puts humanity one step closer to living and working off-world. Why it matters: NASA plans to send astronauts to the moon again in 2025, and by 2028, …
Astronomers have discovered 12 new moons around Jupiter, putting the total count at a record-breaking 92. That’s more than any other planet in our solar system. Saturn, the one-time leader, comes in a close second with 83 confirmed moons. The Ju…
Astronomers have discovered 20 new moons around Saturn, bringing the total to 82. This outnumbers Jupiter, which previously held the record with 79 moons. One of the new moons has the most distant known orbit around Saturn, and they are all abou…
Chinese scientists have discovered a new lunar mineral through the investigation of samples returned from the Moon by the Chang'e-5 mission. This is the first new mineral discovered on the Moon by China and the sixth by mankind . The new fin…
China became the first country to land a spacecraft on the far side of the moon. As part of its mission, the Chang'e-4 lunar rover carried a small biosphere containing six lifeforms, including cotton seeds. Using data from the biosphere experim…
With the autumn equinox less than two weeks away, it's easy to see why September's full Moon is known as the Harvest Moon. It will reach its maximum tomorrow, September 10, at 5:59 a.m. EDT, but if you gaze up at the sky, it will appear ful…
Once more, and perhaps with a stunning view of some heavenly activity. The Full Sturgeon Moon is another name for the August full moon. According to NASA eclipse watcher Fred Espenak, it will be the fourth of four consecutive supermoons. Astro e…
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is the gift that keeps giving. Right after releasing the first set of images on July 12 — four extraordinary observations in the distant cosmos — taken by the world's most powerful space observatory, NASA h…
The interest in space phenomena and the hours of reading the book, The Whole Universe, was what prompted Malick Ndiaye to design a telescope with the few resources he had. The boy born in Senegal, just 12 years old, used some old high-magnification…
We know, rocks and asteroids crash into the moon all the time and that’s the reason it's so cratered. But there's something about looking at it in action, that's pretty incredible. So exactly how big was the crash? It was so big that re…
Chinese researchers have created the most detailed geologic map of the entire lunar surface yet, achieving a 1 to 2,500,000 scale. A study on the moon map titled " The 1:2,500,000-scale geologic map of the global moon " has been accept…
This image of the Lunar Module was captured by Michael Collins. It contains Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin and of course the Earth in the Background of the picture. This image was taken in the course of the Apollo 11 mission, and it marks him (Mich…
The Moon would be a harsh place to call home. It has no weather and no liquid water. And with no atmosphere to hold conditions steady, lunar temperatures can oscillate from 224 degrees Fahrenheit (107 degrees Celsius) in the daytime to –228 degrees…
