Halley’s comet swings near Earth every 75 years. But debris left by the comet leads to two major meteor showers annually.

Chinese scientists have analyzed soil and rock samples from the far side of the Moon. These materials, collected from the ...

How can nanosatellites help advance lunar exploration and settlement? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference hopes to address as a team of researchers ...

Jupiter and Mars shine in the evening, more planets gather in the morning, and the Eta Aquariid meteors join in.

Scientists leveraged a global camera network and doorbell cameras to track dozens of meteorites to their asteroid families.

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

The last time I wrote an article here, it was to talk about Afar Region volcanoes, and I promised more to come. This is still a project that I have in mind, but that will have to wait a little ...

A NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter composite image showing an artificially rim-lit moon in ...

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Scientists and space explorers have been on the hunt to determine where and how much ice is present on the Moon. Water ice would be an important resource at a future lunar base, as it could be used to ...

Houston’s Intuitive Machines and Cedar Park’s Firefly Aerospace have each launched moon landers with NASA’s Commercial Lunar ...

Check out 24 of the world’s must unusual landscapes — from the hellish Darvaza Gas Crater in Turkmenistan to the “snow ...