Tag: Natural satellite

Scientists use a technique called gravitational lensing to examine galaxies and other celestial bodies that are too far away to see directly. Gravitational lensing occurs when the light produced by a distant galaxy is magnified by the...

In 2009 NASA launched the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) to study our natural satellite. Since then, the LRO has continued to produce high-resolution images of the moon, and in August the spacecraft's team decided to risk an...

Since 1989, thousands of extrasolar planets orbiting other stars have been discovered. That's just in the immediate vicinity of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. There are also thousands of possible planets that have not yet been...

One study concludes that known geochemical processes cannot explain the methane concentrations measured by the Cassini spacecraft on the icy moon of Saturn.

A plan to send a drone to search for "the building blocks of life" on Saturn's moon has been delayed for a year due to "external" factors, including COVID-19

The researchers were actually measuring something else when luck and coincidence struck.

UFO enthusiasts are analysing the latest of bizarre claims made by Scott Waring, who has announced the apparent discovery of an alien base on a distant moon.