Some scientists believe the quasi-moon could have been created when a massive impact knocked a chunk of our own moon into ...

A Chinese spacecraft on a mission to collect and return samples of a near-Earth asteroid beamed back its first image of its ...

Residents across as many as 26 states could see the northern lights tonight if solar wind conditions push the Planetary ...

Fourth of July celebrations across the United States this weekend could be accompanied by light shows in the night skies, as ...

The moon over America's first Independence Day was about 31 feet closer to Earth than it is today. Here's how colonists used ...

Jana Gedymin and her daughter, Quinn, 10, take in a view of an ascending full moon during a visit to Rockwell Park in ...

Ganymede’s auroras have always stood apart for one simple reason: this is a moon, not a planet, and yet it carries its own ...

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The Moon’s biggest scar may be hiding something even stranger than the impact that made it. Deep beneath the South Pole-Aitken basin on the lunar far side, scientists have identified a huge mass of ...

It’s a bit worrying when a scientific paper begins, “How long will life on Earth survive?” But in this case—a study by Jacob Haqq‐Misra of Blue Marble Space and Eric Wolf at the University of Colorado ...

Researchers have uncovered more than a thousand previously unknown tectonic ridges across the Moon’s dark plains, showing the Moon is still contracting and reshaping itself. These features are among ...

Logan, Utah — NASA’s Apollo missions were a combination of tragedy and triumph, but a chilling hazard of which many are unaware occurred Aug. 4, 1972, halfway between the Apollo 16 crew’s return to ...