The Moon’s surface is covered in ancient scars, from asteroid impacts to long extinct volcanic activity. From a distance it ...
The Moon’s biggest scar may be hiding something even stranger than the impact that made it. Deep beneath the South ...
The Moon’s biggest scar does not sit quietly in the background. The South Pole-Aitken basin is a vast impact structure more ...
Simulated lunar dirt can be turned into extremely durable structures, potentially paving the way to more sustainable and cost-effective space missions, a new study suggests. Using a special laser 3D ...
Growing evidence suggests that a subsurface ocean lurks beneath the icy surface of Uranus' moon Ariel, but new research, published in Icarus, characterizes the possible evolution of this ocean, and ...
The Artemis Moon exploration program seems to have inspired a lot of people and companies that are involved in the space industry to come up with a flood of interesting ideas on how to advance ...
A gray powder that looks like ash can become something closer to stone when hit with the right beam of light. Engineers have shown that simulated lunar soil can be melted and layered into solid shapes ...
Relive IM-2 mission’s moon landing as it happened. A robotic lander named Athena has made its final descent to the moon’s surface, marking the second lunar touchdown for a US company this week. But ...
What just happened? For decades, scientists have puzzled over the origin of water on the Moon, a resource that could prove vital for future lunar exploration. Since the 1960s, a leading hypothesis has ...