Just hours after touching down on the surface of the moon on March 2nd aboard Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost 1 lander, the ...

The near side is characterized by the famous "Man in the Moon" — a pattern created by large dark patches called lunar maria. The maria are vast, solidified lava plains that formed between 3.2 ...

As NASA astronauts aim for landings in 2027, geologists find surprises in recently retrieved samples from the far ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft identifies over 40 enormous lava lakes on Io, shedding light on the extreme volcanism sculpting Jupiter’s moon.

Blue Ghost will land in Mare Crisium, a 350-mile-wide ancient impact basin on the Moon, which is filled with lava from an ancient eruption.

The Museum of the Moon, a luminous sculpture by internationally renowned artist Luke Jerram, was unveiled at St Canice's ...

Despite their name, the lunar seas are plains of solidified lava which appear dark on the Moon’s disc. Many lunar seas are large enough to spot with just your eyes, so see how many you can ...

The moon’s dark plains were often labelled “seas” because ... The other map reproduced here shows the Sea of Humors, a plain of what was once lava, dotted with smaller craters.

NASA confirmed that a chunk of debris that crashed into a Florida home came from a battery pallet ejected from the ISS, and archaeologists found evidence that humans used a lava tube as a shelter ...

Researchers described the planet as "Io on steroids". Io, Jupiter's third largest moon, is the most volcanic body in our solar system, with every inch of its surface covered in lava plains.

“These vast, linked lava plains are now thought to be compositionally and structurally anomalous with respect to the rest of the Moon. From this separate vantage point, LMS may provide the first ...