The BepiColombo spacecraft is due to start orbiting Mercury next year, but a recent flyby has captured breathtaking images of ...

Artemis delays raise questions about NASA's 2027 moon landing goal. Can the US maintain its lead in space exploration?

February 22, 2025 will be Charles Lyell’s 150th anniversary. This great Scottish geologist, who is buried in Westminster ...

And a large integration hangar was packed with hardware: two lunar landers, two lunar rover mock-ups, a hopper, and other ...

Charon is large in size relative to Pluto, and is locked in a tight orbit with the dwarf planet. A new simulation suggests how it ended up there.

Unlike the Pacific Northwest’s steep-sloped Cascade volcanoes such as Mount St. Helens or Mount Hood that tend to explode ...

With 10 instruments and technology tests, Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander is part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload ...

The full Hunter's Moon will make its appearance on Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025. It also happens to be the first of three ...

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Accessible to anyone the world over, witnessing the majesty of the solar system, including the Milky Way, and its billions of stars and planets is a sight to behold. While many nights offer the chance ...

The Moon is covered in vast numbers of craters, some larger than entire Earth-based Nations, which may serve as dome habitats ...

The prospect of “space water wars” is nearer, timewise, than the prospect of providing clean drinking water to everyone in ...