Psyche was also able to take a high-resolution photo of the southern pole of Mars after its closest approach. The Martian ...

As of Saturday, May 23, the Moon phase is First Quarter. Tonight, 48% of the moon will be be lit up, according to NASA's ...

Neptune has a complicated life story, and its moon Nereid might be the only one left standing from the planet’s ...

Dante’s vision of Hell may echo the physics of a massive asteroid strike, offering a new way to read the Inferno.

The moon glows with the Beehive Cluster on May 21, as a trio of planets form up in the evening sky.

Permanently shadowed craters have long interested scientists. Could a new laser system help future spacecraft navigate the ...

Some of the coldest and darkest places in the solar system may soon become home to one of humanity’s most advanced scientific ...

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

Nuclear power plants are safer than many suspect. But putting reactors in space is a concept with a checkered history. One ...

Earth has a group of cosmic stalkers. Known as "co-orbitals," these small bits of rock have a 1:1 mean motion resonance with ...

A big section of the SpaceX rocket Falcon 9 is predicted to crash into the moon on August 5, astronomer Bill Gray said on his ...