This month will usher in two separate conjunctions — one between the moon and a rarely-visible Mercury, and another between ...

Discover interesting facts about how the moon formed, what it's made out of, and the many missions humans have launched to explore it.

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Towards the end of the month, Mercury will be visible in the western horizon, the space agency said. Californians can observe ...

Enjoy a close conjunction of the solar system’s smallest and largest planet just days before the Full Strawberry Moon this ...

Over the course of four months American space agency NASA tested no less than four technologies meant to make landing easier.

Korenaga is Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Yale University. He tells Srijana Mitra Das at TE about how gold got ...

New research suggests there may be a narrow window of possibility for life to persist on the icy moons of the outer solar ...

We found big chunks of the impactor Theia.” With those five words to The New York Times, Caltech geophysicist Qian Yuan ...

An even stranger theory suggests that Earth's gravity allowed the planet to steal the moon from Venus. Whatever its origin story, the moon has been with us throughout human history, as evidenced ...

One newly unveiled key element is the "Transporter," a vehicle that can be launched on a single Blue Origin New Glenn rocket ...

The curious minds at What If explore the chaos that would erupt if massive planets suddenly replaced the Moon.