A moon that resembles an iconic, fictional space station known to destroy planets may be a home for life beyond Earth.

A newly discovered space rock called 2024 PT5, nicknamed a “minimoon,” may be a fragment blasted off the Moon during a past ...

The discovery of 2024 PT5, a small, rocky body dubbed a "minimoon" during its discovery last year, hints at a hidden ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has discovered a haunting rock formation on Mars that looks unsettlingly like a skull. Dubbed "Skull Hill," the jet-black outcrop is so bizarre and out of place that even ...

Before Perseverance was launched, NASA equipped it with nine bits: one for Martian soil, two for removing the dust-covered ...

There is an anomalous depletion in sodium and potassium at the site, whereas there is an enrichment in sulfur found in the ...

Earth has only one natural satellite, the moon, which is relatively large compared to its parent planet. It orbits Earth at ...

Learn why water levels are important to understand on the moon and how it could impact future missions to build exploration ...

On October 4, 1957, the USSR launched Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite in history, into orbit. That program would ...

The Moon's surface is covered by impact craters, ranging from microscopic pits to massive basins over 1,000 kilometers across ...

Once upon a starlit evening in December 2024, astronomers discovered something small, fast and potentially very rude hurtling ...

The Space Coast set a new record in 2024 with 93 launches from all providers, building off the 72 orbital missions flown in 2023. With SpaceX’s continued pace, more launches from United Launch ...