Lunar minerals generate the rust mineral hematite when bombarded with high-energy oxygen particles, simulations show.

The DSCOVR satellite's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) captured the moon transit the Earth. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: NASA EPIC Team | produced & edited by Steve Spaleta ...

Chinese scientists found 41 new moon landslides, mainly triggered by moonquakes, aiding future lunar base site selection.

Catch a delicate crescent moon from Sept. 23–27 and watch it pair with Spica, Mars and Antares in the west after sunset.

Some observers may have noticed a faint glow illuminating the darker portion of the moon—a phenomenon known as Earthshine or ...

Because of the sun's positioning in the days just before, during and after the equinox, those looking down east-west roads in Chicago and the suburbs will be able to see the sun framed by much of the ...

The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as far as we know. But that doesn’t mean we don’t get visitors, most often in the form of (usually harmless) asteroids. Some even ...

See the epic view of the moon and Earth captured by the Orion spacecraft ahead of its outbound powered flyby. Credit: NASA / time-lapsed by Space.com's Steve Spaleta Music: Kepler's Hope by Year of th ...

On September 19, 2025, witness a stunning conjunction of the crescent Moon, Venus, and Regulus in the predawn sky. Learn why ...

The moon, Venus and bright star Regulus will form a rare conjunction in the pre-dawn sky on Friday, Sept. 19, 2025, with an ...

A cryogenics company called Bluefors needs ten thousand liters of helium-3 from the Moon to be delivered each year from 2028 ...

Kenya was among the countries that witnessed the September 2025 blood moon, a total lunar eclipse lasting over an hour. Soon ...