The magic system in the magical girl epic, Sailor Moon, revolves around crystals. Sailor Moon comes from a long line of Moon ...

YR4 made headlines earlier this year when its probability of impacting Earth in 2032 rose as high as 3%. While an Earth ...

In Feb. 2021, the DSCOVR satellite's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) captured the moon transit the Earth. Credit: ...

Saturn’s moon Titan has always stood out among the celestial bodies in our solar system. It is the only moon with a thick, ...

The moon's near side, the side visible to Earth, is dark and covered in the remnants of ancient lava flows. Its far side, which we can't see from Earth, is rugged and rocky.

The moon 's insides are crooked thanks to the near side being some 306 degrees Fahrenheit hotter at depth than its counterpart on the lunar far side. This is the conclusion of an international ...

This allowed the researchers to create a highly accurate, high-resolution map of the gravitational field of the Moon. It is in that map that the dichotomy between nearside and far side was found ...

The study, published in Nature, is based on the analysis of 578 lunar soil particles. Researchers estimated the water abundance to be less than 1.5 micrograms per gram. This value is significantly ...

It wasn’t until 1959 when the Soviet Luna 3 probe gave us our first glimpse of the Moon’s far side, and it wasn’t until 2019 when the Chang’e 4 mission made the first soft landing ...

Two Grand Canyon-size features on the far side of the moon were likely formed in about 10 minutes after an unknown object slammed into the moon 3.8 billion years ago.

Two Grand Canyon-size features on the far side of the moon were likely formed in about 10 minutes after an unknown object slammed into the moon 3.8 billion years ago.