Well, the verdict is in. The Moon is not made of green cheese after all. A thorough investigation published in May 2023 found ...
NASA's Juno spacecraft found Io’s surface is as smooth as glass, just like volcanically created obsidian glass ...
Small Bang Scientists seem to have figured out why the Moon is made up of such weird and heavy rocks — because, as they claim ...
Scientists have finally discovered the sequence of events that likely led to the Earth’s moon turning itself inside out billions of years ago. Most of what researchers know about the moon’s ...
Incredible map shows the places on the moon where we might find ‘infinite energy’ or trillions in minerals by 2030 A new space race is warming up after half a century, with Russia, China and ...
About 4.5 billion years ago, a small planet smashed into the young Earth, flinging molten rock into space. Slowly, the debris coalesced, cooled and solidified, forming our moon. This scenario of ...
"For the first time, we have physical evidence showing us what was happening in the moon's interior during this critical stage of its evolution, and that's really exciting." Over 4.2 billion years ...
When it came to finding shelter, our early ancestors simply had to make do. Case in point? In the deserts of Saudi Arabia, some of them apparently sought refuge from the oppressive heat by living ...
Only a few lunar sites are ideal for certain cutting-edge research—and they’re under threat from mining, satellites and bases, scientists argue Christian Thorsberg Daily Correspondent Over the ...
A new map of the center of the Milky Way galaxy reveals details of its magnetic fields By Dennis Overbye Soon, this devil-horned comet won’t be visible for another seven decades. By Katrina ...
What is the moon phase today? Today, April 22, 2024, the moon is 14 days old and is in the full moon phase of its lunar cycle. It is 97% illuminated. Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the ...
AT 17 MINUTES and 40 seconds past eight in the evening, Greenwich Mean Time, on July 20th it will be exactly 55 years since Neil Armstrong landed on the Moon. Those 55 years add up to 20,089 days.