A sample collected by the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft from the spinning top-like asteroid contained the nucleobases adenine, ...

One particularly well-known fact about the moon is that it doesn't have much of a magnetosphere to speak of. There's no blanket to protect it from the solar wind ravaging its surface, blowing away its ...

Jupiter has been in retrograde since November 2025 and turns back direct this week. During this time, you may have been ...

New research shows that some frozen moons may hide boiling oceans beneath their icy shells, shaping strange surface features.

New research suggests that Jupiter’s icy moons may have formed with complex organic molecules already embedded in their building blocks.

Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, may have been born in a colossal cosmic crash. New research suggests Titan formed when two older moons slammed together hundreds of millions of years ago—an event so ...

Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is one of the solar system’s oddities. Now, researchers have unlocked key insights about this mysterious moon, including how it came to be. The answer may also shed light ...

The first major astronomical event visible in 2026 is a total lunar eclipse, or “blood moon.” This phenomenon is highly prized by stargazers because the entire lunar disk takes on a reddish color for ...

When NASA’s Artemis II mission embarks on a 10-day journey around the moon, the crew may glimpse features on the lunar surface that no other human has seen with the naked eye. As the astronauts fly by ...

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The Moonsighters Academy was funded by a Science and Technology Facilities Council Spark award. Emma L Alexander receives funding from the Science and Technology Facilities Counci for her research at ...