Grab your telescope and hunt down these four lunar features to celebrate International Observe the Moon Night 2025 on Oct. 4.

Cassini launched Oct. 15, 1997 on a long-term mission to Saturn and its moons. After a trio of gravity assists, two from ...

Scientists found new evidence to strengthen the case that Enceladus, small moon of Saturn about 310 miles wide, may have ...

Private space company Astrobotic is working on the "first-ever commercial power service for the lunar surface," the LunaGrid.

A new British study swirled new evidence on the moon's frigid space temperatures, suggesting its different sides hold vastly ...

In the 17th century, astronomers Christiaan Huygens and Giovanni Cassini trained their telescopes on Saturn and uncovered a ...

China's Chang'e 6 mission returned the first-ever far-side lunar samples, revealing new insights into the moon's interior.

The moon is sometimes called "two-faced" because the surface of its side perpetually facing away from Earth looks so ...

Enceladus has long been considered a prime candidate in the search for life beyond Earth because of its hidden ocean and plumes of water erupting from cracks near its south pole.

New research suggests that the interior of the Moon’s far side may be colder than the side constantly facing Earth, adding ...

Growing evidence suggests that a subsurface ocean lurks beneath the icy surface of Uranus' moon Ariel, but new research, ...