The race to return to the Moon and push beyond has entered a new, more intense phase. While Elon Musk and NASA have been ...

This is the largest photomosaic yet assembled from Hubble Space Telescope observations. It is a panoramic view of the Andromeda galaxy, located 2.5 ...

Mars is home to perhaps the greatest mystery of the Solar System: the so-called Martian dichotomy, which has baffled ...

Formations that look like jumbo-sized kidney beans (or blobs of chocolate syrup, depending on your palette) may be indicators ...

For centuries, we have gazed into space with fascination, dreaming of traveling to distant planets. To turn these dreams into ...

For centuries, we have been gazing into space with fascination, dreaming of travelling to distant planets. To make these ...

For the first time, a location beyond Earth has been listed as vulnerable by the World Monuments Fund, an international ...

The study suggests that the Moon likely formed largely from Earth's mantle material — with minimal involvement from Theia.

Researchers saw a chain of atoms in a quantum simulator go from being magnetic to not magnetic at all, the first time such a ...

Mars, Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn can be spotted without special equipment, with Uranus and Neptune requiring a telescope.

Mars was at opposition as Earth passed by it in our faster, inner orbit. Mars is still very bright and will continue to be so ...