Then, prepare for a wave of insight to rush in as you greet the lunar eclipse in analytical Virgo on March 3. Lunar eclipses are believed to help shed light on our emotions and reveal data that our ...

Enceladus’s geysers power vast electromagnetic wave systems that redistribute energy throughout Saturn’s magnetosphere.

It takes a whole lot of political will to send humans to the moon. These are extremely complex, really costly, major national ...

High-resolution images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter have revealed unusual surface features and transient ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence of a massive underground lava tube hidden beneath the surface of Venus, revealing a new layer of the planet’s volcanic history. By reexamining radar data from NASA’s ...

Luna 9 had a bouncy touchdown on the lunar surface in 1966, becoming the first spacecraft to land on the Moon.

Scientists have produced the first global map and analysis of small mare ridges (SMRs) on the moon, a characteristic ...

Sixty years after Luna 9 touched down on the Moon, the first humanmade object to soft-land there is still missing in plain sight. Soviet reports, including coordinates printed in Pravda, fixed the ...

Dury snapped the full snow moon during a brief break in February's stubborn cloud cover, with the delicate outlines of ...

Data from a NASA lunar orbiter has helped researchers deduce two potential locations for a defunct Soviet spacecraft called ...

The first manned mission of the Artemis program won’t land on the moon, but it aims to take four astronauts farther from the Earth than anyone has gone before.

Only one of these patches of lunar plain can be Luna 9’s actual landing site – and there’s no guarantee that either of them is. But the search is oddly compelling.