October's harvest moon will be the next full moon and it will be the first supermoon of 2025, making it the largest and brightest full moon of the year, illuminating the sky for several nights. Here's ...

Bian Zhigang, vice administrator of CNSA, outlined a number of recent successes, including the Chang'e 5 and Chang'e 6 moon sample-return missions, some of the material from which has been sent to ...

SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket with a payload of more than two dozen Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit early Thursday from Central Florida.

Hematite, a form of iron oxide similar to rust, has been found on the Moon, and until now, the source was a confounding mystery. When scientists examined the data returned by India's first lunar ...

For nearly two decades Enceladus, a 500-kilometer-wide moon of Saturn, has been a top target in the hunt for extraterrestrial life. In 2005, shortly after arriving in orbit around the ringed planet, ...

Scientists measure the distance to the Moon by bouncing lasers off mirrors placed there by space probes and astronauts.

The striking thing about this is that repeating the procedure on the star turned up no evidence of carbon-based chemicals, even though the system is young enough that it should still have a ...

The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as far as we know. But that doesn’t mean we don’t get visitors, most often in the form of (usually harmless) asteroids. Some even ...

2025-PN7 is around 62 feet (19 meters) wide, and it’s between 2.8 million miles and 37.2 million miles away from Earth. It was found in the constellation Piscis Austrinus, which can be seen in ...

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket loaded with more than two dozen Starlink satellites launched into space Thursday evening from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base.

Researchers are discussing 2025 PN7, a small celestial body that's following a similar orbital path to our planet's without being gravitationally tied to Earth ...