Get your binoculars out! On Saturday (Jan. 4), skywatchers in the U.K. and most of Western and Central Europe will be able to ...

On Mercury, craters are named after “artists, musicians, painters and authors who have made outstanding or fundamental ...

Outer space is infinite, but that hasn’t stopped humans trying to impose their laws on it. There are more ways for people to ...

Idaho Falls-based landscape and wildlife photographer Evan Nelson doesn’t consider himself a “pro” photographer. He works ...

Launch licenses the FAA just issued to Blue Origin and SpaceX are setting the stage for space billionaires Jeff Bezos and ...

The Moon held on to its magnetic field for most of its life — which could mean less lunar water available to future astronauts than expected.

The Moon’s permanently shadowed regions (PSRs), located at its poles, have long been a subject of fascination and scientific ...

Sometimes, it's hard to remember that Earth is constantly being bombarded by literally tons of space debris daily. The larger ...

The year 2025 promises to be packed with space exploration, including robotic expeditions to the moon, a new observatory and ...

The Quadrantids’ radiant lies in the now-defunct constellation Quadrans Muralis, a region of the sky occupied by Boötes. It’s ...

Future lunar exploration could bring unexpected hazards by creating short-lived, toxic atmospheres made of moon dust.

The Moon is far older than we once believed — but its fiery past has kept its true age hidden. New research reveals that, a ...