Skywatchers on Thursday evening, Feb. 6, will notice an eye-catching pairing-off between two of the brightest objects in the nighttime sky. The moon, nearly two nights past first quarter and appearing ...

NASA has estimated that there are between 1 - 3 million tons of helium-3 on the moon’s surface, which could open a new ...

Two Grand Canyon-size features on the far side of the moon were likely formed in about 10 minutes after an unknown object ...

Here’s what you should know when you go outside to see for yourself: Yes, the planets are indeed lined up across our sky. No, ...

A colossal impact billions of years ago carved out the canyons that rival the most breathtaking features here on Earth in a matter of minutes, ...

Uranus has the craziest tilt in your Solar System. Its tilt is about ninety-eight degrees. That means its north pole is ...

Earth received water toward the final stages of its formation. This reshapes understanding of the conditions needed for life.

Lunar Trailblazer is part of a growing list of probes and landers heading toward the moon to search for water ice.

They were dug out by debris sent violently aloft when an asteroid or comet struck the lunar surface 3.8 billion years ago.

Water, one of the essential ingredients for life on Earth, did not appear on the planet until after the moon-forming event, a new study claims ...

Using energy greater than the global nuclear weapons inventory, an impact event carved two grand canyons into the moon’s ...

This impact unleashed about 130 times the energy of the current global inventory of nuclear weapons. Read more at ...