Shooting stars have long inspired wonder in people, but just how hard is it to catch sight of them? There are a few tricks ...

Sixteenth century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe laid the framework for modern cosmology without ever using a telescope.

A Chinese rover has found new evidence to support the theory that Mars was once home to a vast ocean, including tracing some ...

China's Chang'e-6 robotic spacecraft in June made history by retrieving the first surface samples from the far side of the ...

NEW YORK -- Volcanoes were erupting on the mysterious far side of the moon billions of years ago just like on the side that ...

New research shows that volcanoes erupted on the far side of the moon billions of years ago, mirroring activity on the near ...

After analyzing the sample, researchers found that the Moon’s oldest and deepest crater on its far side was volcanically active around 2.8 billion years ago. Another sample was ...

See what moon phase it is tonight and find out when you can see the rest of the moon phases for 2024. Today, Nov. 14, 2024, the moon is 13 days old and is in the Waxing Gibbous phase of its lunar ...

Landing 12 people on the moon remains one of NASA's greatest achievements, if not the greatest. Astronauts on the Apollo missions of the 1960s and '70s collected rocks, took photos, performed ...

The moon is by far the most luminous object in the night sky. Reaching a maximum brightness of -12.92 magnitude, it's hard to miss as it boldly takes center stage and washes out any celestial ...