Once a realm of imagination and stargazing, the Solar System has now been revealed in stunning clarity through decades of ...

Explore daily insights on the USA TODAY crossword puzzle by Sally Hoelscher. Uncover expert takes and answers in our ...

The NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens mission explored Saturn and its moons from 2004 to 2017, providing the most detailed images and data on the system ever taken. This included Saturn's largest moon, Titan, ...

China's Tianwen 2 probe has captured striking pictures of home as it heads out to a near-Earth asteroid to collect samples.

Fortunately, the moon has plentiful water, although it is not automatically apparent. Brought to the moon by impacts of ...

If those odds play out, NewScientist reports that a direct impact could "shower Earth with a cloud of satellite-destroying shrapnel." The study concluded that, if the asteroid hits the moon, the ...

Scientists from China extracted water from lunar soil and used it to convert carbon dioxide into oxygen and chemicals for ...

The China National Space Administration (CNSA) released images of Earth and the moon on Tuesday, taken by the Tianwen 2 spacecraft from deep space, according to Xinhua.

There is currently a 4.3% chance that the giant space rock 2024 YR4 will hit the moon in seven years. If this does happen, debris from the nuclear bomb-like impact could trigger a "spectacular ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — The Japanese company ispace announced that it believes its HAKUTO-R Mission 2 lunar lander has been lost while attempting to land on the moon on Thursday afternoon. This ...

For almost five hundred years, human beings have been finding ways to circle the Earth-- by sail, steam, or liquid fuel; by cycling, driving, flying, going into orbit, even by using their own bodily ...

8 night sky events to see in July, from a ‘buck moon‘ to a rare view of Pluto Get your binoculars ready for dark skies, elusive planets, and a sky show spanning the entire month.