As NASA astronauts aim for landings in 2027, geologists find surprises in recently retrieved samples from the far ...

Data collected by NASA's InSight lander suggest that ancient internal processes are responsible for the "Martian dichotomy" ...

Shepard, famously stern and severe, returned home from his visit to the Fra Mauro lunar highlands to move right back into his old post as chief of the Astronaut Office at NASA. Joking about how ...

Most nights, if the moon is clear, the celestial body hovering in the night sky shines with a bright silvery aura. It can be a fetching sight, especially when the moon is full and unobscured by ...

A private spacecraft carrying NASA instruments to the surface of the moon in preparation for astronauts to return in the years ahead has reached lunar orbit about a month into its spaceflight.

The reflectivity of the asteroid’s surface best matches material from the Lunar Highlands, or the bright, rough terrain on most of the moon’s surface, he said. If scientists can link lunar ...

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A total lunar eclipse - the first to grace our skies since 2022 - will happen in March, and it will bring us a Blood Moon that will appear tinted a reddish-orange to our eyes. The total lunar ...

There will be precipitation in the Western Washington lowlands this weekend, but whether or not it is snow is still debatable. A big ridge of high pressure off the coast is steering weather ...

At 7:36 a.m. EST, today is every stargazer’s favorite moment of the month — the new moon. This lunar phase sees the moon roughly between the Earth and the sun, making the moon invisible but ...