As humanity moves closer to extracting and using space resources, the need for a cohesive and responsible global governance ...

Images of Earth and the moon captured by the Tianwen 2 robotic probe are released on Tuesday by the China National Space ...

Meet Bille, the name given to the world's first monostable tetrahedron—a four-faced object that will always land on the same ...

From the start, Cassini provided us with incredible views of these icy worlds, including Titan, Enceladus, Mimas, Dione, and others ... s study of Titan revealed that this moon, with its thick ...

After long days focused on the facts, our newsroom reads a lot of fiction at home. We asked our NPR colleagues what they've ...

A Japanese lunar lander called Resilience failed to softly touch down on the moon’s surface on June 5. The spacecraft’s status is currently unknown after Tokyo-based company ispace lost communication ...

Dione may not be as famous as Titan or Enceladus, but this Saturnian moon is quietly fascinating. Beneath its icy surface lie strange wispy terrains and ancient scars from unknown forces.

Old surface, young ocean The research team determined the origin and age of Mimas’ ocean by studying how the moon, roughly 249 miles (400 kilometers) in diameter, responded to the gravitational ...

Mimas, which is Saturn's 7th largest moon and resembles the Death Star from Star Wars, has a unique orbit around its parent planet that can best be explained by the presence of a liquid ocean ...

Saturn's moon, Dione, imaged by NASA's Cassini in Feb 2008. (Credit: NASA) We recently explored Saturn’s walnut-shaped moon, Iapetus, to include its two-toned surface features and equatorial ridge.

On Monday, Cassini zips past the moon Dione for its final time. Cassini's closest approach, within 295 miles of the icy, crater-pocked surface, will occur at 2:33 p.m. EDT.