A moon can sit next door to another and still feel like a different world. Around Jupiter, that contrast shows up fast. Io ...

Wausau Pilot & Review The night sky this week rewards patience, darkness and careful timing. A rare stretch of moonless ...

A researcher shows a lunar sample retrieved by the Chang'e 6 mission at the lunar sample laboratory in the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Beijing, ...

Scientists have produced the first global map and analysis of small mare ridges (SMRs) on the moon, a characteristic ...

The first crewed mission of the Artemis program won’t land on the moon, but it aims to take four astronauts farther from the ...

The closest humanity has ever gotten to a period of sustained world peace was not the Congress of Vienna in 1815, nor the ...

Recent research suggests that Saturn's bright rings and its largest moon, Titan, may have both originated in collisions among its moons. While Cassini's 13-year mission expanded our understanding of ...

Scientists from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the CAS Aerospace Information Research Institute, and other institutions, have revised the decades-old ...

Unusual isotopic ratio in samples brought back by Chang'e-6 reveals clues about the early history of Earth's satellite ...

Early last year, asteroid 2024 YR4 caught the public’s attention as its chances of hitting Earth in the near future climbed ...

A researcher from the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences examines in July last year a microscopic image of lunar rock and soil fragments that were collected by the ...

Moons are common throughout the solar system, orbiting planets, asteroids, and even distant Kuiper belt objects. But could a moon itself have a smaller moon orbiting it? In this video, we explore the ...