If our Moon suddenly vanished, Earth would already face dramatic consequences. But replacing it with entire alien worlds ...

On a chilly morning at Marlboro Elementary, three eighth graders gather around a table strewn with notebooks, laptops, and a stack of planetary data sheets. They’re not just ...

New research shows that some frozen moons may hide boiling oceans beneath their icy shells, shaping strange surface features.

Old Apollo rocks are providing a fresh take on the moon's magnetic field. The lunar magnetic field is currently weak or even ...

A new analysis of Apollo moon samples reveals insight into the history of the lunar magnetic field.

Jupiter’s icy moons may have been seeded with the chemical ingredients for life from the very beginning. An international ...

Although astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets, the number of confirmed exomoons—and exorings—is still zero. But ...

Scientists at the University of Oxford have finally settled a decades-long mystery about the Moon’s magnetic field — and it turns out both sides were right. By reanalyzing Apollo mission rocks, they ...

“Our findings suggest that Jupiter’s moons did not form as chemically pristine worlds,” Mousis said. “Instead, they may have accreted, or accumulated, a significant inventory of COMs at birth, ...

If you examine our solar system’s giant planets, you’ll notice right away that they’ve all got moons—a lot of moons. While ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — Like a giant Roman candle, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket soared into the night sky on Wednesday, carrying Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 lunar lander. Its destination is the moon, where ...