#PlanetaryScience

The answer is a gigantic “hydraulic jump,” and researchers believe similar phenomena may occur on planets like Mars.

The findings suggest our solar system is much more dynamic than previously thought.

As NASA’s Artemis II astronauts zipped around the Moon in early April, they observed flashes of light caused by meteoroids hitting the lunar surface.…

Researchers in the Czech Republic say they may have observed the signature of a “whistler” in a one-second snapshot captured by the MAVEN probe orbiting Mars.

The near and far sides of the Moon are very different in their chemical composition, their magmatic activity and the thickness of their crust.

More molecules and compounds vital to the origin of life have been detected in asteroid samples delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission.