Placing a mass driver on the moon has long been a dream of space exploration enthusiasts. It would open up so many ...

When the Moon is directly overhead, its gravitational pull slightly reduces a person's weight on Earth. This is because the ...

For nearly 40 years, scientists have generally agreed that Earth's Moon formed from debris after a massive collision with our ...

NASA-supported scientists have developed a method to compute how tides affect the interiors of planets and moons, which will ...

Miranda, a small moon of Uranus, has always been a bit of a mystery. Recently, scientists have been curious if it might have ...

There are 79 known moons of Jupiter. What if we move Earth into its orbit too? How would Jupiter's super-strong gravity affect our lives? What would our skies look like? How long could you survive on ...

We have seen a recent surge of interest in whether it’s possible to grow potatoes and other plants in Martian soil, but what ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Hera probe recently completed a key manoeuvre which has set it on a path to Mars. The spacecraft will reach the red planet in March 2025 for the first gravity assist.

Learn more about NASA and Ohio State’s collaboration, which aims to eventually enable large structure construction and repair ...

Launched in 1969, just a few months after humans first set foot on the Moon, Skynet-1A was put high above Africa's east coast ...

We've learned so much over the centuries, but science still can't definitively answer these surprisingly fundamental ...