The discovery is a capstone achievement for NASA, which went to great lengths to secure and deliver asteroid samples from ...

New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...

For decades, astronomers have tried to determine how Pluto acquired its unusually large moon Charon ... tiny potato-shaped moons called Phobos and Deimos, which are likely two asteroids that ...

Pluto likely acquired large moon Charon in a “kiss and capture” collision billions of years ago. It may have created a subsurface ocean on the icy dwarf planet.

Future detailed studies of Phobos and Deimos could, likewise, provide clues as to their composition and origin, perhaps possibly proving that they are, in fact, remnants of a destroyed moon. Japan’s ...

For example, he has rarely criticized NASA or its overall goal to return humans to the moon through the Artemis program. Rather, Musk, who has long preferred Mars as a destination for humans ...

In the UK's Whitley Bay, a shining waxing crescent Moon glows with Venus to the right Stargazers around the globe were treated to a stunning celestial scene on Friday as Venus appeared shining ...

Recent photos taken by India’s Space Research Organization moon orbiter, known as Chandrayaan 2, clearly show the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 landing sites more than 50 years later. The photos were ...

Get your binoculars out! On Saturday (Jan. 4), skywatchers in the U.K. and most of Western and Central Europe will be able to see Saturn vanish behind the crescent moon — an event known as a ...

Monday, Jan. 13, 2025, is when the full Wolf Moon howls its brightest. The moon's phases in January are: According to the Old Farmer's Almanac, moonrise for the Louisville area will happen by ...