While it has been established that water exists on the Moon, pinpointing its precise locations presents a formidable ...
Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...
The Blue Ghost lunar lander, built by the Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace for NASA, launched to space on Jan. 15, and ...
For a brief, but exciting, time last year, Earth had two moons. A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit ...
Skywatchers on Thursday evening, Feb. 6, will notice an eye-catching pairing-off between two of the brightest objects in the ...
I recently saw a YouTube video by Hank Green discussing how important the Galilean moons are in our understanding of the solar system and the universe as a whole. The ...
Before arriving at the moon, the small satellite mission will use the gravity of the sun, Earth, and moon over several months ...
The moon's ascending node (the point in the sky where its orbit crosses the ecliptic from south to north) is moving westward ...
Last year, a pair of researchers claimed that the shockwaves of the shutdown could be felt as far as the moon, causing a ...
All planets revolve around the sun along the same orbital plane, known as the ecliptic on Earth, and all of them travel along it and eventually catch up with one another over time. Once the planets ...