The most coveted possession in luxury isn’t kept in a wardrobe. It’s an itinerary. A 70-foot rappel into a sandstone slot canyon outside Page, Ariz.; a helicopter circling Lake Natron’s flamingo-pink ...

For 10 days in April, NASA’s Artemis II crew traveled around the far side of the Moon and back, marking one of the most ...

Placing ultrastable lasers inside some of the coldest, darkest lunar craters could help scientists establish a GPS-like ...

Blue sunsets, whirling dust devils, giant volcanoes, tiny moons, and marsquakes—there’s a lot to discover on Mars!

From blooming tulip fields in the Netherlands to the glowing shell of the Bubble Nebula, last week’s PPOD images celebrated ...

Part of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is likely to crash into the moon this summer, a new report finds. It poses no danger, but does highlight a worrying trend.

"The motion of space junk is mostly quite predictable; it simply moves under the influence of the gravity of the Earth, Moon, ...

A new study, published in Science Advances, has refined some important details about the moon's largest and oldest impact crater, which stretches more than 1,200 miles (2,000 km) on the far side of ...

A bold step toward returning humans to the Moon is underway with Blue Origin’s uncrewed MK1 “Endurance” lander, designed to test the technologies that future astronauts will rely on. Built in ...

Tonight is "blue moon Eve" (see the May 31 entry for more details). Late tonight, look toward the southeast to see one of the sky's most striking color contrasts. The bright, nearly full moon will be ...

May 2026 will feature two full moons, one on May 1 and another on May 31. The second full moon in a single calendar month is known as a blue moon. At least one of May's full moons will be a micromoon, ...