"The commonly quoted average distance of 384,400 kilometers, or 238,855 miles, is a good approximation," said Craig Hardgrove ...

NASA is developing a new Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) for the Artemis missions to the Moon, enabling astronauts to explore ...

In a fascinating cosmic event, Earth has temporarily captured a mini-moon, an asteroid now caught in Earth's gravitational pull. Named 2024 PT5, this tiny space rock was first spotted by astronomers ...

A large space rock estimated to be roughly the size of school bus is currently caught in earth's graviational field.

So, Earth has a "new moon," but before you get too excited about a cosmic sidekick, let’s set the record straight. Earth is ...

After months of calls for a lunar clock, NASA announced it would “coordinate with U.S. government stakeholders, partners, and ...

The environments in space habitats and on the Earth are both closed-loop systems, only on vastly different scales.

NASA's Europa Clipper mission, launching on October 2024, will orbit Jupiter and conduct 49 close flybys of Europa, an icy ...

When the German Space Agency and European Space Agency unveiled their version of the moon-- the LUNA Analog Facility-- in ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft, the first dedicated mission to study an ocean world beyond Earth, aims to investigate if ...

Maggie Aderin-Pocock tells us about the power of the James Webb Space Telescope and how she inspires disadvantaged students ...

While there won’t be another “ring of fire” event until 2026, opportunities to watch the moon obscure some of the sun’s surface are around the corner.