The real Lord of the Rings is Saturn, a massive outer planet boasting a set of rings about 27 Earths wide. Being a gas giant like Jupiter, Saturn shares many of its attributes: a strong magnetic field ...

An artist’s impression of Chandrayaan 2’s lander and rover on the Moon. Chandrayaan 3 hardware is expected to look similar. Credit: ISRO ISRO is now preparing Chandrayaan 3 for a 2023 launch, with the ...

For all our abilities, humans are puny creatures on the scale of space. The Universe we exist in is just too vast and beyond our intuitive contemplation. As we start the new year with wishes and ...

On the Moon's surface lie a set of bizarre looking features called Irregular Mare Patches, or IMPs. Here's one, called Ina. The enigmatic volcanic feature of Ina on the Moon. Credit: NASA LRO This IMP ...

The Moon’s farside hosts the spectacular 312-kilometers wide Schrödinger crater with its crown-shaped mountain ring formed 3.8 to 3.9 billion years ago. The 312 kilometers wide Schrödinger crater, as ...

As technology progresses, humans increasingly exploit resources of our home planet. One day, we might become an interplanetary species as imagined in The Expanse. One of the fundamental steps towards ...

Before we begin, a note that my thoughts are with everyone affected by the fires in southern California as well as by last week’s 6.8-magnitude earthquake in Xizang, China. One thing that is notable ...

Our Earth as captured by the Blue Ghost lunar lander from Earth orbit on January 23, 2025. Image: Firefly Aerospace After NASA transferred operations of two of its key lunar orbital imagers to ...

Seen here is part of the volcanic mountain range Montes Carpatus, the full range stretching 361 kilometers across the Moon. Mountains in the Montes Carpatus range, imaged by NASA's Lunar ...

A not-to-scale representation of ISRO’s Venus orbiter mission Shukrayaan. Credit: ISRO Edit in October 2024: I’ve written a new, much longer article on ISRO’s Venus Orbiter after India approved the ...