The astronaut candidates will begin two years of training before becoming eligible for missions to low-Earth orbit and beyond ...

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

NASA announced the first class of astronauts in four years who could one day be eligible for missions to the moon and Mars.

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

Happy autumnal equinox! Now, you can finally say fall is here — yesterday was still summer. Today, the sun enters Libra, the ...

The phenomenon of a Full Moon arises when our planet, Earth, is precisely sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon. This ...

Researchers are discussing 2025 PN7, a small celestial body that's following a similar orbital path to our planet's without being gravitationally tied to Earth ...

On the day of the 2025 autumnal equinox, the sun rises almost exactly due east and sets to the west. The months that follow ...

Stargazers in the U.S. will witness the razor-thin waning crescent moon rise close to Venus and the bright star Regulus in the predawn sky on Sept. 19, while others will see the lunar disk pass ...

Analysis by researchers at the University of Bern suggests that water and other volatile compounds arrived on Earth from ...

Skygazers, get ready to head outside and spot the supermoon, coming in October.

So the bottom line is that the gravity of the closer tidal bulge on the Earth is pulling the Moon forward, which increases ...