A 2.35-billion-year-old meteorite with a unique chemical signature, found in Africa in 2023, plugs a major gap in our ...

What color is moonlight typically, and what other colors can moonlight look like from our perspective on Earth?

New findings from China's Chang'e 6 lunar farside samples offer insights into the moon's volcanic past and mantle evolution.

In-Situ Resources Exploitation The Moon is a massive planetary body, with a composition very similar to Earth’s crust. It might also contain some significant water resources in the form of ice hidden ...

Jupiter’s moon Io has once again demonstrated why it holds the title of the most volcanically active body in the solar system. NASA’s Juno mission has detected an enormous volcanic hot spot in Io’s ...

These fresh samples could confirm whether a global remelting event did indeed reset the Moon’s geological clock. The researchers also plan to investigate how tidal heating affected the Moon’s interior ...

LULU MILLER: The spacecraft headed for Jupiter's moon is called the Europa Clipper. It's taken decades to build, and it is now on its way to probe for possible alien life.

To investigate this mixing, Clipper is equipped with spectrometers to map Europa’s surface composition, a thermal camera to search for hot spots of activity, instruments to measure the moon’s ...

The new volcano is just south of Io's equator. Since tidal heating from Jupiter causes Io's volcanic activity, most volcanoes are in the moon's equatorial region, within about 30 degrees north and ...

The same should be true of Io, which is similar in size to our Moon. However, tidal forces generated by gravitational interactions with Jupiter give Io an additional, strong heat source.