Who hasn't looked into the sky and wondered if there's life out there, somewhere, looking back at us? Is it possible there's ...

Astronomers have discovered what they think may be another moon orbiting a distant dwarf planet called Quaoar. This small, ...

Io isn’t just another moon, it’s the most volcanically active body in the entire solar system. Orbiting Jupiter, Io is ...

The dwarf planet Pluto and its five known natural satellites (Charon, Styx, Nix, Kerberos, and Hydra) may be frigid, but ...

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

Gaia’s mission is a complicated one. It’s attempting to chart every star in our galaxy, which could num0ber upwards of 400 ...

This unexpected color raises new questions about the alien chemistry of comets from beyond our solar system. On Sept. 7 2025, ...

Experiments on Earth indicate some common species of bacteria and fungi could survive for several days on the moon's surface, ...

Three celestial bodies are preparing to meet up for one night in September in a cosmic conjunction that should be widely visible in the sky.

Until recently, we could only study geology by looking at rocks on Earth and the Moon —well, and the rare meteor or two that ...

Phases of ice that exist naturally only on frozen moons could be detected using infrared spectroscopy, according to new ...