A private U.S. lander carried NASA’s experiments to the Moon, showing that commercial partners can lower costs and speed NASA ...
NASA announced the Artemis II mission to ferry astronauts around the moon for the first time in more than 50 years, could ...
The Moon is rusting — and it’s Earth’s fault. Scientists have found that oxygen particles blown from Earth to the Moon can ...
Asteroid 2024 YR4 caused quite a stir last year when it was discovered and originally calculated to have a 3% chance of ...
During Blue Ghost operations within the Moon’s Mare Crisium, temperatures peaked at 230°F during lunar noon, the hottest part of the lunar day, and quickly dropped to -275°F during a five-hour solar ...
Earth is the only planet in our solar system with a single moon, making it a rare phenomenon for a planet of its kind.
In this curious film, a pair of friends venture out into the desert to build an accurate to scale model of our solar system.
There will be four eclipses this year, two solar and two lunar, but only the lunar eclipses will be total. Moreover, there will be 12 full moons this year, when lunar eclipses can occur, and 12 new ...
With its new funding, Icarus is working towards a 2027 launch to the ISS, when it will be able to test its robots in space.
A small asteroid has been quietly following Earth’s orbit for decades—unseen, unbothered and, until recently, completely ...
Analysis by researchers at the University of Bern suggests that water and other volatile compounds arrived on Earth from ...
Faint hydrogen signals from the cosmic Dark Ages may soon help determine the mass of dark matter particles. Simulations suggest future Moon-based observatories could distinguish between warm and cold ...