NASA is asking U.S. companies for proposals to move forward with the ice-hunting VIPER moon rover, a $450 million project the ...

An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.

Anyone could make a mistake in thinking that the “fiction” bit of science fiction absolves the genre of any responsibility to ...

The Blue Ghost moon lander, launched on January 15 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, is captivating space enthusiasts with ...

Flickering coronal "loops" on the Sun are warning signs of a coming solar eruption, paving the way for better space weather ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost moon lander caught haunting images of Earth while preparing to make its way towards lunar ...

Saturn’s rings, imaged here by NASA’s Cassini orbiter, are one of the solar system’s most reliably spectacular sights. But ...

The images were captured using NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC), a 4MP CCD camera and telescope on the DSCOVR ...

A tiny asteroid loitering in a near-Earth orbit for a few months last year may have an intriguing origin on our Moon. Its characteristics led scientists to ask: is it a chip off the old lunar block, ...

While this may sound like an immense distance, it's pretty close on a cosmic scale: the moon ... Earth Object or NEO, which are defined as objects that come within about 120 million miles of the ...

Oxygen isotope identity of the Earth and Moon with implications for the formation of the Moon and source of volatiles. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2024; 121 (52) DOI: 10.1073 ...

The prevailing theory had been that the moon was the result of a collision between early Earth and the protoplanet Theia. New measurements indicate that the moon formed from material ejected from ...