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 ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The ...

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 ...

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

When dashes are provided, it means that the moon is below the horizon. The shadow cone of the Earth has two parts: a dark, inner umbra, surrounding by a lighter penumbra. The penumbra is the pale ...

"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 ...

Firefly Aerospace landed a craft safely last week, a first for a private company. But Intuitive Machines’ mission ended when its lander wound up on its side in a crater.

Intuitive Machines, a Houston company aiming to repeat a 2024 landing, said its spacecraft, Athena, has power and is ...

Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos ... While the car-sized spacecraft flew around the Mars system, flight controllers on Earth temporarily lost communication with Hera because the signal ...