Discoveries from NASA's GRAIL mission reveal the moon's uneven interior, with a molten layer beneath the near side surface.

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 ...

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

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, ...

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

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

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 ...

Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, has always fascinated scientists with its thick, hazy atmosphere—the only one like it on any ...

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

With the planned return of humans on the Moon, it is important to consider how electron flux affects not only scientific data ...

The puzzling behavior of Titan's atmosphere has been revealed. The team has shown that the thick, hazy atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon doesn't spin in line with its surface, but instead wobbles ...

A new report on the U.S.'s readiness in the face of threats from space has revealed concerns about our vulnerability to major ...