China is already testing the tech. Bricks made from lunar soil simulants are undergoing durability tests on the Tiangong ...

One part of this plan would require increasing the planet’s atmospheric pressure, and one scientist suggests that capturing ...

Saturn’s largest moon might not be the barren world it seems. Beneath Titan’s icy crust lies a vast ocean of liquid ...

The Chang’e-6 mission returned soil samples from the South Pole–Aitken impact basin of the lunar farside, providing an opportunity to study the water contents of the farside mantle.

Scientists have long noted differences between the lunar near side and far side. While the near side periodically passes ...

There is no other moon quite like our own in the entire solar system. The Moon is unique in a lot of ways, some of which are ...

Historical context of GNSS in space. The latest historic chapter in GNSS for space users was launched, as one would expect, ...

The remaining episodes explore Dark Worlds in the least explored regions of space, Storm Worlds where planets are ravaged by extreme weather, frozen Ice Worlds and Strange Worlds - which looks at some ...

A new trail in this southern Arizona city plots the most visitor-friendly astronomy stops—and there are plenty to choose from ...

Soil and rocks returned from the moon's far side suggest it may be drier than the side constantly facing Earth ...

Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is a strange, alien world. Covered in rivers and lakes of liquid methane, icy boulders and ...

Uranus, the mysterious ice giant, has 27 known moons, each named after literary characters from Shakespeare and Alexander ...