The excavator has been jointly developed by NASA backed startup Interlune and industrial equipment manufacturer Vermeer.

Scientists may have solved the mystery of why the moon shows ancient signs of magnetism although it has no magnetic field today. An impact, such as from a large asteroid, could have generated a cloud ...

The finding could explain the long-running mystery of why the surfaces of the lunar near and far sides are so different.

"We suggest that the processes which formed the lunar maria several billion years ago are still present and active today." ...

“Our study shows that the Moon’s interior is not uniform: the side facing Earth (the nearside) is warmer and more geologically active deep down than the far side. This difference is linked to the Moon ...

Jupiter and Mars are on display during May evenings. It's your last chance to grab a good view of Jupiter before it drops out of sight for midsummer. A gathering of planets in the morning sky offers ...

Heat drives geology, the rocky foundation upon which everything else ... Maybe Earth’s moon was like Io. The moon was significantly closer to Earth back then, and the gravitational fields from the ...

"Knowing that the moon is still geologically dynamic has very real implications for where we're planning to put our astronauts, equipment and infrastructure on the moon." ...

Close ⁣flybys of⁣ Io ‍conducted⁤ by ‍Juno between December 2023 and February ⁣2024 have provided key data⁣ on the moon’s gravitational ... of Io’s geology but also open ...

That's thought to be the case with the Jovian moon Io. Recent and upcoming lunar missions ... Carsten Münker, a scientist at the Institute of Geology and Mineralogy at the University of Cologne ...

This heating happens the same way that heating does on Jupiter’s hyperactively volcanic moon Io. The smaller body’s shape gets squeezed and stretched by tides from the big body. And just like ...

The moon’s existence was first noted by Galileo Galilei in ... Park elaborated on how Juno’s discovery does more than reshape our understanding of Io’s geology. “It has implications for our ...