What type of lander could touch down on Jupiter's volcanic moon, Io? This is what a recent paper presented at the AIAA 2025 Regional Student Conference hopes to address as a team of student engineers ...

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The bottom line is that the fact that fire is so tightly bound to Earth is a reminder of how special our planet is. Every campfire and candle isn’t just a chemical reaction. It’s a signature of ...

During its close flyby of Jupiter's moon Io on December 30, 2023, NASA's Juno spacecraft captured some of the most detailed imagery ever of Io's volcanic surface. In this image, taken by the JunoCam ...

Several companies firmly believe that mining for helium-3 (He-3) on the moon is a real potential money-maker. But is there an economic return on investment in scouring Earth's moon for that natural ...

China's Chang'e 6 mission returned the first-ever far-side lunar samples, revealing new insights into the moon's interior. Lunar samples reveal the far side of the moon, hidden from Earth's view, may ...

New research suggests that the interior of the Moon’s far side may be colder than the side constantly facing Earth, adding another layer of strangeness to this mysterious lunar region.

Growing evidence suggests that a subsurface ocean lurks beneath the icy surface of Uranus' moon Ariel, but new research, published in Icarus, characterizes the possible evolution of this ocean, and ...

The Moon has always been a plain, grayscale, landscape. Its plains and craters offer some variety, but the lunar surface blends into a uniform dullness.

The moon is sometimes called "two-faced" because the surface of its side perpetually facing away from Earth looks so different than its side always facing our planet. And the differences run deeper ...

The Intuitive Machines' Nova-C "Odysseus" lander has delivered its first image from the surface of the moon. Also, see the NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter view of the lander from moon orbit.

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin has sunk $3 billion to build up its manufacturing plant and launchpad on the Space Coast in the last decade. On Friday, it invited visitors for a rare media tour of the plant ...