In this curious film, a pair of friends venture out into the desert to build an accurate to scale model of our solar system.

There will be four eclipses this year, two solar and two lunar, but only the lunar eclipses will be total. Moreover, there will be 12 full moons this year, when lunar eclipses can occur, and 12 new ...

With its new funding, Icarus is working towards a 2027 launch to the ISS, when it will be able to test its robots in space.

A small asteroid has been quietly following Earth’s orbit for decades—unseen, unbothered and, until recently, completely ...

Faint hydrogen signals from the cosmic Dark Ages may soon help determine the mass of dark matter particles. Simulations suggest future Moon-based observatories could distinguish between warm and cold ...

An international research collaboration has used advanced computer simulations to investigate how faint radio signals from ...

New study provides clearer insight into how the Moon formed and why its materials closely resemble those of Earth.

A gem of a find by The Public Domain Review of a collection from the Rijksmuseum: photographs of plaster models of the ...

"This implies that the eastern Mare Imbrium basin may be the current seismically active area of the moon," he said. "If a ...

For more than sixty years, a tiny asteroid has been moving in step with Earth, hidden from view until recently. Astronomers ...

Do we know what space actually smells like? And what about other planets, moons, and celestial bodies? Here's what the ...

Scientists are unraveling the mysteries of "steam worlds"—exoplanets known as sub-Neptunes that are rich in water but orbit so close to their stars that their surfaces are shrouded in thick ...