Jupiter may have once been more than twice its current size, with a magnetic field 50 times stronger, say scientists who ...

Strawberry moon will be at full illumination June 11, the latest of the full moons tied to Native American tradition.

Using computer simulations, the researchers uncovered a scenario in which an ancient asteroid impact briefly amplified that field, just long enough for nearby rocks to capture and record its magnetic ...

Discover interesting facts about how the moon formed, what it's made out of, and the many missions humans have launched to ...

I’ve also covered a “Blood Worm Moon” and a “Super Blue Moon.” These fun names are simply combinations of a few factors that may apply to any given moon. In one category, you have your ...

the maps of at least some of the moons appear to have mislabelled craters and features. Lakdawalla explained that the map names and features are off by about 180 degrees. A good example of the ...

The new missions will explore everything from volcanoes on the moon ... crater on the lunar far side, or the part of the moon that never faces Earth. From there, the Lunar Surface Electromagnetics ...

Science: SpaceX launched its IM-2 lunar mission from NASA's Kennedy Space Center aiming to get closer to the moon's south pole this time with a drone that will hop into a jet-black crater that never .

Scientists think there might be ice trapped at the moon’s poles, particularly in permanently shadowed regions, or PSRs. These are craters near ... creating a 3D map of the surrounding location.

It had maps and place names, but within the scientific community ... that large impacts caused the craters on the Moon. The second was Ralph Baldwin, who worked with bomb fuses during the Second World ...

In these maps, the moon is divided into 144 sections called ... named after 17th-century theologian Denis Pétau, and features a crater of the same name that measures almost 200 kilometres in ...

India's lunar mission Chandrayaan-3 possibly landed in one of the oldest craters of the Moon, according to scientists who analysed images from the mission and satellites. “The crater was formed ...