Before arriving at the Moon, the small satellite mission will use the gravity of the Sun, Earth, and Moon over several months ...

Partners use Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket to test out technologies bound for the moon—without actually sending them there ...

Lunar Trailblazer's voyage to the Moon will take between four and seven months, de-pending on the day it launches. This orbital diagram shows the low-energy transfer trajectory of the NASA mission ...

The impact on the oceans if the Moon disappeared would be much smaller tides, about one-third the size of what they are now. Tides churn up material in the oceans, which allows coastal ecosystems to ...

Russia's state-owned Rosatom announced a prototype plasma engine which could speed up travel to other planets.

These popular astronomy questions, answered by Astronomy magazine, will help you better understand our universe - and share ...

Because the Moon is over a quarter the diameter of Earth, the Earth-Moon system is often cited as the pairing in our Solar ...

To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...

The moon's ascending node (the point in the sky where its orbit crosses the ecliptic from south to north) is moving westward ...

Planet-watching should only get better throughout the month. Venus, the planet of love, will shine brightest on Valentine's ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Europe’s Euclid space telescope has detected a rare halo of bright light around a nearby galaxy, ...