Yet the excitement is muted a bit in October because the rings appear nearly edge-on. They tilt 1.5° to our line of sight on the 1st and just 0.6° on the 31st. With the rings creating less distraction ...

Now, thanks to NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have made the first direct measurements of one such disk around a distant planet named CT Cha b, located 625 light-years away. This disk is ...

For nearly two decades Enceladus, a 500-kilometer-wide moon of Saturn, has been a top target in the hunt for extraterrestrial life. In 2005, shortly after arriving in orbit around the ringed planet, ...

The south pole of Enceladus—a tiny moon orbiting Saturn—is a volatile place. In this region, the moon’s subsurface ocean spews jets of water through four “tiger stripe” cracks in the icy crust, ...

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Blue Origin is working with partners in Luxembourg on a campaign called Project Oasis, which aims to identify valuable resources on the moon.

Geyser-like plumes spray out of the south polar region of Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, into space. Credit: ESA / Science Office illustration A moon of Saturn has a surprising variety of carbon-based ...

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 ...

In the 17th century, astronomers Christiaan Huygens and Giovanni Cassini trained their telescopes on Saturn and uncovered a startling truth: the planet's luminous bands were not solid appendages, but ...

Billions of years ago, water flowed across Mars. Most scientists agree the red planet had rivers. But did those rivers flow into an ocean? New research from the University of Arkansas found strong ...

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 ...

While astronomers have studied circumstellar disks, circumplanetary disks have not been investigated in detail. Now astronomers have peered into a moon-forming disk for the first time, thanks to the ...