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 ...

New research published in the Earth and Planetary Science Letters journal suggests the moon's oldest crater, the South Pole-Aitken basin, may be round, as opposed to the oval shape than scientists ...

A photograph taken by a Craters of the Moon Artist-in-Residence has been selected for inclusion in a special U.S. Department ...

The South Pole-Aitken basin is the moon's oldest and largest visible crater—a massive geological wound 4 billion years old that preserves secrets about the moon's early history, much like a ...

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.

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

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