Once crucial to navigation, lighthouses now stand as cultural markers linking past and present along the nation’s shores.

Join us on a guided telescope tour of August's moon, featuring distinct targets for each of the four major lunar phases.

There was once a magma-filled ocean on the south pole of the moon, scientists recently discovered after analyzing lunar soil that revealed ancient information about the moon's origin. The study of ...

The moon was once covered in an ocean of magma: new data supports theory Rocks collected by the Chandrayaan-3 offer more clues to the moon's violent past. Tom Hawking Aug 21, 2024 11:00 AM EDT ...

Data from India’s recent Chandrayaan-3 mission supports the idea that an ocean of molten rock once covered the moon. Scientists from the mission have published their new findings in the journal ...

The outer solar system is awash with liquid water. A briny ocean is concealed beneath the icy crust of Jupiter’s fourth-largest moon, Europa—with more water than all of Earth’s oceans ...

The team suspects the ocean is about 12.4 miles to 18.6 miles (20 kilometers to 30 kilometers) deep beneath the moon’s ice shell. With the ocean so young, astronomically speaking, there wouldn ...

A new study suggests Uranus' moon Miranda may harbor a water ocean beneath its surface, a finding that would challenge many assumptions about the moon's history and composition and could put it in ...

Central Avenue Beach Trail at Indiana Dunes National Park goes right along Lake Michigan. This trail is an easy hike, under a mile, and most of it is on the beach.