So how did our planet end up with such a special moon? The answer is that, surprisingly enough, the moon is a piece of our ...

While making the deliveries, the Blue Ghost lander experienced one lunar day. During the course of that day, it captured ...

The number of known moons in our Solar System has been rising for centuries, but astronomers say it has probably peaked – for ...

A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.

New research from scientists with the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences and published in the journal Science found that ...

The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target.

When sunlight hits Earth’s atmosphere during a lunar eclipse, light frequencies toward the blue end of the visible spectrum ...

"These instruments have been tried out before, during Hera's departure from Earth, but this is the first ... will collect detailed measurements of Mars' two moons and land on Phobos, the larger ...

Totality, whereby the Earth blotted out the sun's disk to reveal the sun's corona, lasted for more than two ... moon’s shadow over a large region of the United States during the event. Few ...

The Blue Ghost lunar lander, operated by Firefly Aerospace from Texas, became the first commercial spacecraft to image an eclipse from the moon.

This placed the ringed planet firmly in the lead. Elsewhere in the Solar System, Earth has one moon, Mars has two, Jupiter has 95, Uranus has 28 and Neptune has 16, for a total of 142 moons.

The SpaceX capsule carrying Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, along with two other astronauts, parachuted into the Gulf of ...