Unlike a supermoon, which appears bigger and brighter, a micromoon looks smaller and dimmer than usual, as seen from our ...
The Hera probe from the European Space Agency (ESA) recently captured spectacular images of Deimos, the smallest moon of Mars ...
A space probe flying past Mars captured images of the red planet's small, mysterious moon. While on a flyby of Mars, Hera was able to use three of its imaging instruments to capture images of ...
The four-legged Blue Ghost carried 10 scientific payloads as it touched down near an ancient volcanic vent on Mare Crisium, a large basin in the northeast corner of the moon's Earth-facing side.
Saturn has 274 moons recognized by the International Astronomical Union. The number of moons increased substantially in March 2025 when 128 new moons were discovered by a team led by Edward Ashton ...
Could microbes survive in the permanently shadowed regions (PSRs) of the moon? This is what a recent study presented at the ...
Firefly Aerospace on Monday announced the conclusion of its Blue Ghost lunar lander mission, declaring it the first “fully successful” commercial operation on the moon.