The U.S. and China are in a sprint toward manned missions to the lunar surface by the end of this decade, with sights on 2029 ...

The company’s Starship rocket, which has suffered a series of recent test explosions, is still years away from being ready ...

From Newton’s falling apple to Einstein’s curved spacetime, our understanding of gravity has come a long way, yet this ...

Earth has a number of mini-moons and quasi-moons. Mini-moons are objects that orbit our planet. But they make for fickle fans: They tend to swing around Earth for only a matter of months. One example ...

This weekend's September new moon will rise amid a partial solar eclipse, giving way to the autumnal equinox. Here's when, ...

NASA has managed to get men on the moon, rovers on Mars, and probes around Saturn's rings. But it seems the space agency is yet to master how to make decent sushi in space.

The next full moon will be the largest and brightest full moon of the year - the October 2025 harvest supermoon. Here's what ...

Every year, the moon, Earth's reliable celestial companion for 4.5 billion years, is getting 1.5 inches away. The distance to ...

The moon and Venus will shine vividly alongside a bright star in the early morning in a celestial rendezvous that should be visible across the U.S.

Due to the influence the Earth plays on the moon’s momentum, the Earth’s rotation slows down in response, as explained by DiKerby. However, given that this is such a minor change in distance annually, ...

Whenever astronomers detect something new moving through our region of space, like an interstellar object or an unusual ...

The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions readers may have about the mechanisms behind lunar and solar eclipses, as ...