Key Findings The moon once dismissed as the solar system's most hostile environment may now sit directly in the path of an ...

Jupiter's moon Io may host alien life in protected lava tubes. Now, Avi Loeb claims the anomalous interstellar object ...

NASA Juno spacecraft data has been used to create an animation of "Steeple Mountain" and a lava lake known as Loki Patera on ...

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 ...

Jupiter’s volcanic moon has always felt like a place that tests your sense of what a world can be. Its surface glows with hundreds of active hot spots. Its mountains rise higher than Everest. Its lava ...

A pair of groundbreaking NASA studies, published in Nature, have unveiled new insights into the interiors of the Moon and the asteroid Vesta—two drastically different celestial bodies. By leveraging ...

Still, critics argue, it’s possible for NASA to carry out a moon mission that — while not as simple as Apollo — is at least less complicated than relying on Starship. Under the current road map for ...

NASA continues to test various robotic models in a simulated lunar surface as it works toward the goal of having humans back on the moon. The RASSOR (Regolith Advanced Surface Systems Operations Robot ...

NASA released a selfie taken by the Orion capsule and close-up photos of the moon's crater-marked landscape as the spacecraft continues on the Artemis 1 mission, a 25-and-a-half day journey that will ...

Following countless delays plaguing its efforts to return the first astronauts to the lunar surface in over half a century, NASA could finally be bucking the trend. NASA officials revealed today that ...