Planets/Moons

WASHINGTON--The stark difference between the Moon's heavily-cratered farside and the lower-lying open basins of the Earth-facing nearside has puzzled scientists for decades. Now, new evidence about the Moon's crust suggests the…

Credit: Source: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Alex Parker Joint press release by Hokkaido University, Earth-Life Science Institute at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokushima…

Around 500 astronomers and space scientists will gather at Lancaster University, from 30 June - 4 July, for the Royal Astronomical Society National Astronomy Meeting 2019 (NAM 2019). The conference is the largest annual astronomy and…

Scientists at the Swedish Museum of Natural History have begun compiling an atlas of fossils in volcanic rock, to guide where and what to look for in the search for Martian lifeCredit: Dr. Magnus Ivarsson In 2020, NASA and…

Credit: NAOC/CNSA A lunar lander named for the Chinese goddess of the moon may have lessened the mystery of the far side of the moon. The fourth probe of Chang'E (CE-4) was the first mission to land on the far side of the moon,…

Small, hardy planets packed with dense elements have the best chance of avoiding being crushed and swallowed up when their host star dies, new research from the University of Warwick has foundCredit: University of Warwick/Mark Garlick…

Credit: Space Science Council of RAS Russian and German physicists have offered an explanation for the new data obtained by Martian satellites, capturing the "escape" of hydrogen atoms from the upper Martian atmosphere into outer…

The moon is still tectonically active, according to data from NASA's Apollo and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter missionsCredit: LROC NAC frame M190844037LR; NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University/Smithsonian A 2010 analysis of imagery from…

Credit: Penn State UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The galaxy is littered with planetary systems vastly different from ours. In the solar system, the planet closest to the Sun -- Mercury, with an orbit of 88 days -- is also the smallest. But…

Instead of ballooning into spheres, as once thought, early supernovae ejected jets that may have seeded new starsCredit: Melanie Gonick Several hundred million years after the Big Bang, the very first stars flared into the universe as…