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The DSCOVR satellite's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) captured the moon transit the Earth. Credit: Space.com | ...
Saturn's moon Titan has an atmosphere that spins with a tilt completely separate from the moon's surface rotation.
The icy surface of Jupiter 's moon Europa appears to be constantly changing, new data from the James Webb Space Telescope has ...
Photographer Petr Horálek observed both a lunar eclipse and a galaxy of stars from the the US National Science Foundation’s ...
The Moon has been Earth’s constant companion for billions of years, influencing everything from tides to the stability of our planet’s axis. But what if, suddenly, the Moon disappeared? This video ...
In a major milestone, an experimental satellite recently carried out the world's first daytime laser-ranging test in Earth-moon space, marking a breakthrough in China's deep-space orbital precision ...
Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / University of Nantes / University of Arizona Scientists have had a hunch that a distant moon experiences weather like Earth's, forming clouds that douse its craggy ...
The moon's near side, the side visible to Earth, is dark and covered in the remnants of ancient lava flows. Its far side, which we can't see from Earth, is rugged and rocky. Scientists have long ...
The findings will aid future lunar missions and navigation. A new NASA study has found that the inside of the Moon is not the same on both sides, and this could explain why the side facing Earth looks ...
With a diameter of 7.7 miles (12.4 kilometers), Deimos, which scientists believe is likely to be a captured asteroid, is much smaller than Earth’s moon, which has a diameter of 2,159 miles ...
The variations cause the moon to flex due to Earth’s tidal force. Just as the moon can dictate tides on Earth, the Earth exerts a gravitational pull on the moon. They used data on the motion of ...