The Moon itself will be well worth observing, as sunlight highlights prominent impact sites. Major features, such as the ...

Nov. 7 (UPI) --Saturn's Enceladus moon might be capable of supporting life, according to data collected by NASA's Cassini mission and compiled in a new study in the Science Advances journal. The moon ...

The finding sees the return of the Cassini mission from the grave, with data it collected in 2005 and 2015 being key to making the discovery. Excess heat is flowing from the north pole of Enceladus, ...

A new study led by researchers from Oxford University, Southwest Research Institute and the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona has provided the first evidence of significant heat flow at ...

Space has a knack for bending our sense of scale. The Moon feels close enough to touch—after all, we see its craters with ...

NASA’s Cassini mission has revealed surprising heat flow at Enceladus’ north pole, showing the moon releases energy from both ends. This balance of heat could allow its subsurface ocean to remain ...

Time now for our science news roundup from Short Wave, NPR's science podcast. And we have the show's two hosts here, Regina Barber and Emily Kwong. Hello. REGINA BARBER, BYLINE: Hey. EMILY KWONG, ...

Conventionally, the moon is thought to have formed during one big impact, but a three-impact model might make more sense ...

"The most convincing scenario is that most of the building blocks of Earth and Theia originated in the inner solar system.

Gravity and motion make time pass faster on Mars than Earth, reshaping navigation, communication, and future crewed missions.

"During the early solar system's game of cosmic billiards, Earth was struck by a neighbor,” said Dauphas. “It was a lucky shot. Without the moon's steadying influence on our planet's tilt, the climate ...