Moons (Page 4)

From icy Europa to supermoons, here is the latest in lunar science.

Latest in Moons

Blood moon in totality, partial lunar eclipse, and then moon in slight shadow

Don’t miss this weekend’s total lunar eclipse

By Purbita Saha

Two scientists in purple light look at trays of plants.

We now have proof that plants can grow in moon dirt

The moon is pockmarked with craters, including holes made by rockets.

Lunar soil could help us make oxygen in space

By Leto Sapunar

NASA SLS rocket against sunset at Kennedy Space Center launch pad before Artemis I mission

NASA’s new moon rocket is leaking fuel, but that’s not a setback

A view of the moon from the ISS.

How researchers in a simulated moon habitat survived extreme isolation

By Leto Sapunar

Saturn's ocean moon Enceladus with clear tiger stripes in a blue colorized image from the Cassini space probe

Here’s why Saturn’s ‘ocean moon’ is constantly spewing liquid into space

By Philip Kiefer

Orange NASA SLS rocket at launchpad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida with a brown banner that says "we are going"

In pictures: NASA’s powerful moonshot rocket debuts at Kennedy Space Center

By Purbita Saha

Inside NASA’s messy plan to return to the moon by 2024

Inside NASA’s messy plan to return to the moon by 2024

By Leto Sapunar

Craters on the dark side of the moon from a flyby image

Why NASA’s pumped to watch a rocket smash into the moon

By Paul Hayne / The Conversation

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

Part of a SpaceX rocket is going to crash into the moon. It’s probably fine.

Blurry hut-like object on the surface of the far side of the moon

China’s Yutu 2 Rover investigated a ‘mysterious hut’ on the moon

By Margo Milanowski

Jupiter's surface and red spot with moons in the background. the four moons in the background are yellow, pink and white, gray, and mottled yellow

Jupiter’s moons are about to get JUICE’d for signs of life

By Tatyana Woodall

This view of Jupiter’s turbulent atmosphere from NASA’s Juno spacecraft includes several of the planet’s southern jet streams.

Jupiter’s largest moon sounds like a friendly robot

an astronaut stands next to an american flag on the moon

Imagine traveling to the moon only to realize you’re allergic to it. One astronaut did.

By Popular Science Team

The moon is pockmarked with craters, including holes made by rockets.

Pockets of frozen CO2 on the moon could fuel future space travel

By Leto Sapunar

This bitty near-Earth asteroid might be a piece of the moon

This bitty near-Earth asteroid might be a piece of the moon

The US return to the moon gets a schedule change—again

The US return to the moon gets a schedule change—again

These new robots will plunge into the ocean’s most alien depths

These new robots will plunge into the ocean’s most alien depths

A wide-angle picture of the surface of the moon from the perspective of a lander spacecraft.

Scientists have new moon rocks for the first time in nearly 50 years

By Leto Sapunar

A full moon against an amber sky with foliage brush in the foreground.

Enjoy breathing oxygen? Thank the moon.

By Charlie Wood

The Hubble Space Telescope, with its yellow solar panels featured prominently.

Hubble spied water vapor on our solar system’s largest moon

A Brief History of the Apollo Hoax

A Brief History of the Apollo Hoax

flood water under park bench

Why we’re going to see a rapid rise in sunny day floods

By Sara Chodosh

A large, yellow moon rises over the branches of a tree.

The Strawberry Moon, explained

By Erin Fennessy

Here’s our original coverage of Apollo 11

Here’s our original coverage of Apollo 11

A close-up of Jupiter's moon Ganymede.

NASA’s Juno orbiter captured striking close-ups of Jupiter’s biggest moon

By Leto Sapunar

An artist's rendering of Saturn's moon Enceladus

Is something burping methane on Saturn’s ocean moon?

By Charlie Wood

Super Moon rise over a valley

How to photograph the moon like a pro

By Stan Horaczek

solar panel factory on the moon

Solar Panels Grown On The Moon Could Power The Earth

An image of a tardigrade.

What you need to know about the tardigrade cannon

NASA’s Twin Orbiters Will Crash Into The Moon On Monday

By Rebecca Boyle

CubeSats Are Paving Mankind’s Way Back To The Moon, And Beyond

CubeSats Are Paving Mankind’s Way Back To The Moon, And Beyond

By Shannon Stirone

exploring moon caves

We could live in caves on the moon. What would that be like?

The moon’s surface is a chaotic mess of craters of all sizes. Now algorithms are smart enough and kind enough to sort through that mess for us.

Astronomers made a poor bot count 100,000 moon craters

By Charlie Wood

The best books about the moon

The best books about the moon

By Eleanor Cummins

Europa’s icy surface may glow in the dark

By Kate Baggaley

The moon is pockmarked with craters, including holes made by rockets.

New 3D moon models show it might hold up to 15,000 miles of frozen water

This image of the Moon was created with images taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

The moon is (slightly) wet, NASA confirms. Now what?

By Charlie Wood

The moon is in line to get LTE.

The moon will soon have cell service

By Charlie Wood

Landing on the moon only made us love it more

By Alice Gorman/MIT Press Reader

Davis Meltzer’s A Space Station

11 of NASA’s most out-of-this-world illustrations

By Sara Kiley Watson

An artist's impression of the Hubble capturing a lunar eclipse during a blood moon.

Hubble just captured a lunar eclipse for the first time ever

By Paola Rosa-Aquino

An X-ray and optical composite image of a detonating star.

Ancient supernovas may have pierced moon rocks with star shrapnel

By Charlie Wood

A methane and ethane lake on Titan's surface.

If life exists on Titan, it’s even weirder than we thought

By Charlie Wood

moon over the earth

Earth has a new mini-moon, but don’t get too attached

By Charlie Wood

Katherine Johnson at NASA Langley Research Center in 1980

Katherine Johnson, whose calculations enabled the first moonwalk, dies at 101

Bridgestone moon tire concept.

These lunar rover tires mimic camel hooves for maximum traction on the moon

By Stan Horaczek

Enceladus imaged by Cassini

Mysterious stripes on Saturn’s moon Enceladus may have a new origin story

By Charlie Wood

an infrared composite photo of titan

The first global map of Titan reveals Earth-like features with a peculiar twist

By Charlie Wood

NASA’s sending a rover named VIPER to map the moon’s ice deposits

NASA’s sending a rover named VIPER to map the moon’s ice deposits

By Charlie Wood

How China got the first seedling to sprout on the moon

How China got the first seedling to sprout on the moon

Saturn now has 82 known moons—so why did we only get one?

Saturn now has 82 known moons—so why did we only get one?

By Charlie Wood

NASA is planning an interplanetary fishing trip

NASA is planning an interplanetary fishing trip

By Charlie Wood

Money, shoes, poop, and other highlights from the 796 items we’ve left on the moon

By Sara Chodosh

Buzz Aldrin sloshed around in pee on the moon (and 11 other Apollo facts)

Buzz Aldrin sloshed around in pee on the moon (and 11 other Apollo facts)

By Rachel Feltman

The Apollo moon rocks continue to reveal secrets of the cosmos

The Apollo moon rocks continue to reveal secrets of the cosmos

By Marion Renault

Did we mishear Neil Armstrong’s famous first words on the Moon?

Did we mishear Neil Armstrong’s famous first words on the Moon?

By Melissa Michaud Baese-Berk/The Conversation

The Apollo 11 mission as told through the astronauts’ heart rates

The Apollo 11 mission as told through the astronauts’ heart rates

These six big moon mysteries remain unsolved

These six big moon mysteries remain unsolved

By Neel V. Patel

Why doesn’t anyone live on the moon yet?

Why doesn’t anyone live on the moon yet?

By Alex Schwartz

Fifty years ago Hasselblad sent the first cameras to the moon

Fifty years ago Hasselblad sent the first cameras to the moon

By Jeanette D. Moses

Could you run a moon mission from your smartphone?

Could you run a moon mission from your smartphone?

By Graham Kendall

NASA’s new mission to Titan is looking for life in all the right places

NASA’s new mission to Titan is looking for life in all the right places

By Rachel Feltman

The moon’s south pole is hiding something massive and mysterious

The moon’s south pole is hiding something massive and mysterious