Artemis III is planned for 2027. If it stays on schedule, that's the mission that will put humans back on the moon for the first time in 55 years. The crew plans to touch down in one of 13 planned ...

The Moon is rusting — and it’s Earth’s fault. Scientists have found that oxygen particles blown from Earth to the Moon can ...

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

NASA has 10 new astronauts chosen from more than 8,000 applicants. Six of them are women, the first time in NASA history that ...

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 ...

The last time human feet touched the moon was in 1972 and when those astronauts returned they brought back valuable samples ...

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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 ...

As kids of the 1980s, surrounded by a boom in science magazines with utterly ridiculous headlines, we were told that by 2025 there would be flying cars straight out of Back to the Future, humanoid ...

Methane gas may signal an atmosphere or geological activity on a distant dwarf planet located at the outer edge of the Solar System. A research team led by the Southwest Research Institute has ...

Saturn’s moon Enceladus has long dazzled scientists with its icy plumes that spew water and mysterious organic molecules into space, fueling hopes of a habitable ocean beneath. But new experiments ...