The vernal equinox occurs as Mercury stands still in Pisces and several of Jupiter’s moons transit in the sky this week.

March marked a milestone in private space exploration as Texas-based Firefly Aerospace successfully landed its first robotic ...

A team of geologists at the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, the Institute of Space Sciences and the Shandong ...

The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis. According to this story, when the ...

New research from scientists with the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences and published in the journal Science found that ...

Earth and sun caused the moon to appear with a striking red glow. But from the lunar surface, the effect would have been reminiscent of the total solar eclipse many Americans witnessed in April 2024.

Ice may be present a few centimeters below the moon's surface in more areas of the lunar polar regions than was previously thought due to large, yet highly localized, variations in surface ...

Intuitive Machines successfully landed its Athena spacecraft on the lunar surface. However ... flight and end up a week later operating on the moon, I declare that a success." ...

Thanks to the Moon’s orbit around Earth, the angle of sunlight hitting the lunar surface and being reflected back to our planet changes. That creates different lunar phases. The next Full Moon ...