Key Findings The moon once dismissed as the solar system's most hostile environment may now sit directly in the path of an ...

NASA Apollo 17 astronaut Eugene Cernan drives a moon buggy at the lunar Taurus-Littrow Valley landing site in 1972. No one expected these glittering bits among the gray lunar dust back then. The beads ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Apollo 17's Harrison Schmitt in the Taurus-Littrow Valley, from where the volcanic glass beads ...

Jupiter's moon Io is a world of pure, violent chaos. With hundreds of active volcanoes, its surface is a crucible where lead ...

"We suggest that the processes which formed the lunar maria several billion years ago are still present and active today." Ancient volcanic heat may have shaped the moon from the inside out, keeping ...

After the Cassini spacecraft flew by Saturn’s moon Titan, scientists were left with some puzzling evidence. Flows on the moon’s surface appeared to be eruptions of frozen oxygen, methane, and ammonia.

Artist\'s conception of the moon about three and a half billion years ago with volcanic activity feeding an atmosphere. From about 4.1 to 3.8 billion years ago, just a few hundred million years after ...

New research on the Uranian moon Ariel suggests the icy world may be hiding a deep secret. Credit: NASA / JPL Scientists think one of Uranus' moons may once have had an ocean roughly 100 miles deep — ...

Tiny glass beads brought back by NASA's Apollo 17 astronauts are helping scientists uncover new clues about how the moon erupted billions of years ago. No one expected these glittering bits among the ...