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A violent impact that carved out the moon’s largest impact basin may have scattered deep lunar material near the lunar south pole — right where NASA…

A multitude of new moons have made their presence known around Jupiter and Saturn, bringing their population of moons to 101 and 285, respectively.The new discoveries…

Jupiter’s moons can have surprising effects on the world’s displays of auroral lights by “stomping down” on the planet’s gigantic magnetic environment.These surprising effects, detected in…