The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis. According to this story, when the ...

Out past Neptune are countless small icy and rocky bodies called Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), and many of these have moons ...

a moon-bound NASA orbiter known as the Lunar Trailblazer, a commercial deep space asteroid prospecting probe named Odin, and a privately-built space tug designed to work in Earth orbit.

The tri-state area is being treated to a full lunar eclipse early tomorrow. If you manage to be awake between 2:26 a.m. and 3:31 a.m. on Friday, you’ll notice the full moon taking on a reddish hue for ...

Thanks to the Moon’s orbit around Earth, the angle of sunlight hitting the lunar surface and being reflected back to our planet changes. That creates different lunar phases. The next Full Moon ...

The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target.

But because the moon's orbit is slightly tilted relative to Earth's orbit around the sun, it doesn't block out the sun on every orbit, hence why not every new moon results in a solar eclipse ...

In late 2024, astronomers spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 on a trajectory that could potentially threaten Earth. This observation ...

If successful, Athena's landing will be the second by a private American company this year. Firefly Aerospace was the first ...

Spain, and the northern hemisphere in general, will be able to see a partial solar eclipse. In Spain, it will begin at 10:48 a.m. and last approximately 21 ...

The alignment only happens at special times, and that’s because the orbit of the Moon around the Earth is slanted with ...

Fram2, the first human spaceflight to orbit the poles ... On long-duration missions to Mars – or even the moon – Earth is a long distance away in the event of a medical emergency.