How can humanity use the developing Lunar Gateway as an appropriate starting point for advancing human space exploration beyond the moon? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th Lunar and ...

Astronomers are developing plans and technology for increasingly powerful space telescopes. For instance, NASA is working on its proposed Habitable Worlds Observatory, which would take ultrasharp ...

Tonight’s full strawberry moon will appear on the southeastern horizon just as the sun sets in the west, then hang low all ...

Saturn's moon Titan has an atmosphere that spins with a tilt completely separate from the moon's surface rotation.

The hunt for habitable worlds has become a hot topic in astronomy. For decades, the search has been focussed on planets in ...

Frameworks are a critical, if underappreciated, component of any space exploration mission. They can range from the overall mission architecture, capturing scientific and technical goals, to the ...

The robotic Tianwen-2 spacecraft will collect samples from Kamoʻoalewa, which some scientists suspect is a fragment of the moon.

Our moon is a particularly unusual example of moons when it comes to planetary bodies. Though many other planets in the solar ...

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope and the Keck II telescope in Hawaii have observed something remarkable on ...

"We were able to see methane clouds evolving and changing close to Titan’s north pole over multiple ... moon's skies. Similar molecules are associated with the chemical origins of life on Earth.

While volcanoes have brought profound changes to landscapes here on Earth, volcanic activity on other planets and moons has followed a different path. It's easy to imagine space volcanoes as even more ...

However, other characters mess with the flow of time in ways that undoubtedly lead to the creation of multiple ... Moon uses her powers as Princess Serenity to reverse the damage done to the Earth.