This week, skywatchers are in for a rare treat. Earthshine will bathe the moon in a soft glow, offering a glimpse of its unlit surface like never before. What is Earthshine? Earthshine is an ...

Catch the soft glow of earthshine as a young crescent moon appears low after sunset.

Look to the west after sunset this week for a spectacular sight, as the razor-thin waxing crescent moon hangs low above the horizon with earthshine bathing its unlit surface in a ...

Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) probe is on its (very long) way to Jupiter, and will finally arrive at the King of Planets ...

The James Webb Space Telescope reveals active volcanoes on Io in unprecedented detail thanks to an innovative technique.

NASA needs to wait one more day to roll its moon rocket back to the launchpad, but that shouldn't affect when it launches. The Artemis 2 Space Launch System (SLS) rocket has been ...

One particularly well-known fact about the moon is that it doesn't have much of a magnetosphere to speak of. There's no blanket to protect it from the solar wind ravaging its surface, blowing away its ...

Rogue moons drifting through space may host long-lived oceans for up to 4.3 billion years, expanding where scientists search ...

Exomoons orbiting rogue planets could host liquid water for billions of years, offering potential habitats for life deep in ...

Comical signs warning drivers of "craters" on a pothole-filled road have compared its surface to that of the moon. The signs ...

Scientists from Oxford University finally explain why some Moon rocks show intense ancient magnetism. Titanium-rich rocks caused brief bursts in the lunar magnetic field.

Surprisingly, however, stable conditions that are conducive to life could exist far from any sun. A research team from the Excellence Cluster ORIGINS at LMU and the Max Planck Institute for ...