Artemis II left the lunar sphere of influence on Tuesday afternoon – a milestone in the journey which will have the crew ...

A major defense against everything space throws at us, Earth’s magnetic field may even protect the moon from damaging ...

High-energy particles called galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) bombard unprotected objects in space, often causing damage. Earth, ...

At a Thursday lecture event, Benjamin Weiss, a professor of Earth and planetary sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, spoke about his recent research on the lunar dynamo, which ...

A new study using data from China's Chang'e-4 moon lander found an area of reduced radiation from cosmic rays near the moon.

The study of gravitational dynamics interweaves the classical and quantum realisations of gravity, employing both traditional methods and modern amplitude techniques. At its core, the subject ...

Solar wind, in combination with Earth's magnetic field, has been delivering particles from our planet's atmosphere to the moon's surface for billions of year, as illustrated here. - Shubhonkar ...

Astronomers recently detected a stray quasi-moon in our planet’s orbit, but it's hardly the first stowaway to hang out around Earth. Unlike the Earth's moon, quasi-moons are not gravitationally bound ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Barreling through the universe with incredible power and speed, galactic cosmic rays are a major source of radiation in space. But ...