Lunar Commercial Orbital Transfer Services will likely allow visits of private astronauts to the moon, just as Commercial ...

The moon spent a few million years as a volcanic wasteland, covered with ongoing eruptions that spewed from mountains and even from the ground itself. New research suggests that the moon's orbit could ...

Discover interesting facts about how the moon formed, what it's made out of, and the many missions humans have launched to ...

Saturn's moon Titan has an atmosphere that spins with a tilt completely separate from the moon's surface rotation.

NASA will soon be implementing a long-term presence on the Moon, with housing for 100 or more astronauts, and Mars will ...

China has sent a probe on an ambitious mission to grab rocks from a near-Earth asteroid and return them to Earth before ...

China has achieved a milestone feat, making the first-ever laser ranging measurement from Earth to the moon during the daytime.

The first observations of Pluto by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal dramatic phenomena on its surface, like ...

China’s Tianwen-2 mission has launched to explore an asteroid that may be a piece of the moon, as well as an active asteroid ...

The result may have been comparable to Jupiter's moon Io, the most volcanic body in the solar system. Early in the history of the solar system, a massive protoplanet plowed into a young Earth.

Our moon is a particularly unusual example of moons when it comes to planetary bodies. Though many other planets in the solar ...