While the moon once had a weak magnetic field generated by a small molten core, the team's research suggests it likely wouldn ...

Resilience launched on Jan. 15 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that also carried another private moon lander: Firefly ...

Where did the moon's magnetism go? Scientists have puzzled over this question for decades, ever since orbiting spacecraft ...

There have been proposed hypotheses as to how the Moon could have developed a core dynamo. For instance, a 2022 analysis suggested that in the first billion years, when the Moon was covered in molten ...

A recently resurfaced NASA image of Saturn’s moon Iapetus is stirring renewed interest across the internet, showing an ...

The optical illusion occurs because people are used to interpreting shadows as coming from an overhead light source. But that's not necessarily the orientation of spacecraft. In many satellite photos, ...

Our satellite is a little off-balance. GRAIL data show a mass asymmetry of a few percent between its near and far sides.