A UTEP professor is part of the team as NASA plans to land two astronauts on the south pole of the moon for the first time in history in 2027. The expected weeklong mission aims to further lunar ...

Jose Hurtado, Ph.D., a UTEP professor in the Department of Earth, Environmental and Resource Sciences, has earned a new grant ...

The newly discovered asteroid is expected to tag along on the Earth's path around the sun for another 60 years.

NASA on Monday introduced the 10 people who will join the agency’s astronaut corps as it races to return humans to the moon.

Astronomers have discovered landslides on the Moon triggered by geological activity under the lunar surface. A team from ...

Earth has a newly discovered—albeit temporary—companion in its journey around the sun. In research published this month in ...

Earth is the only planet in our solar system with a single moon, making it a rare phenomenon for a planet of its kind.

Scientists are closely monitoring Comet 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object. Discovered in July 2025, it's moving at record ...

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 ...

In a new study published in the journal Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society, astronomers report the discovery ...

Astronomers have identified a small asteroid, designated 2025 PN7, orbiting near Earth, intriguingly behaving like a quasi-moon.

Astronomers have identified a tiny quasi-moon, 2025 PN7, orbiting near Earth for about 60 years. This 62-foot-wide near-Earth ...