On Sept. 18, 1977, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took a photo of Earth and the moon. It was the first time both the Earth and ...

There are quite a few other places we might find life in the solar system, including dwarf planets like Ceres. Ceres is ...

Welcome to SolarBalls, where entertaining space animations meet educational insights about the solar system and the universe.

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 ...

If you look up on a clear night, the brightest and largest object in the sky will probably be the moon. And unless you have a decent telescope, it is the only natural satellite you can see with your ...

The solar system holds extraordinary wonders, from Voyager 1’s historic journey into interstellar space after traveling ...

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

Astronomers have identified a tiny quasi-moon, 2025 PN7, orbiting near Earth for about 60 years. This 62-foot-wide near-Earth ...

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.

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

Blue Origin is committed to making a permanent human presence in space a reality. To this end, they have developed the New ...

Did you see the bright star next to the moon? That was Venus, and part of a conjunction between the moon, Venus and the star ...