The striking thing about this is that repeating the procedure on the star turned up no evidence of carbon-based chemicals, ...

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

The distance of the Moon changes over the course of a month as it revolves around the Earth. The moon's orbit is not a ...

Artemis 2 won't land on or orbit the moon. But it will be the first crewed mission to reach the lunar neighborhood since ...

Astronomers have found a 19m-wide space rock that has been quietly hanging around Earth since 1957. This quasi-moon poses no threat.

A new celestial object, a quasi-moon, has been discovered in Earth’s orbit. This cosmic companion has been circling our planet unnoticed for decades, possibly up to 60 years, and is now redefining our ...

For researchers at the University of Idaho, spotting a moon 6 miles wide orbiting Uranus, a staggering 1.8 billion miles from ...

Webb's Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), which shows thermal light, collected observations of the planet that allowed the team ...

With a low but notable chance of hitting our moon this asteroid is in the sights of scientists. A city-block-sized asteroid ...

Earth is far from a static place. That's true in the present, but it's even more apparent when you look to the past, as Earth ...

The first Artemis mission lasted 25 days and saw the launch of an uncrewed spacecraft in November 2022. It saw a spacecraft ...

The four astronauts set to climb aboard the first Orion spacecraft to fly humans have already given it a name.