Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles ...

Chinese researchers analyzed the first-ever soil samples returned from the far side of the moon, but further samples will be ...

Look to the eastern sky, and a clear horizon will show you a unusual, grinning planet alignment.

The annual display of Lyrids, famous for bright “fireball” shooting stars, will occur from April 17-26, peaking on April 22, ...

Despite decades of searching for this signal, astronomers have yet to find it. The problem is that our Earth is too noisy, making it nearly impossible to capture this whisper. The solution is to go to ...

Using dust from Apollo 17, Scientists recreated the moon’s conditions and discovered that sunlight alone can generate water ...

Skywatchers around the world turned their heads — and lenses to the skies to capture the beauty of April’s full Pink Moon — ...

One study from May 2023 presents convincing evidence that the lunar core is solid, rather than liquid. Even more interesting, ...