For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the size of a city bus. The celestial object is ...

On September 29, 2024, Earth captured a tiny asteroid named 2024 PT5, turning it into a temporary mini-moon. It won't be around much longer.

India is not alone in this quest. NASA, too, is developing the Lunar Gateway, a space station that will orbit the Moon.

The dark skies during a new moon ... to Earth's orbit around the sun, it doesn't block out the sun on every orbit, hence why not every new moon results in a solar eclipse, according to NASA.

In 1969, Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon's surface—a momentous engineering and science feat marked ...

NASA has identified nine locations near the Moon’s south pole for the first crewed lunar landing since Apollo 17.

Titan is a giant moon – the second biggest in our solar system, and even larger than the planet Mercury. Nasa says it has a nitrogen-based atmosphere like Earth – but its clouds and rain are methane.

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission returned to Earth after spending eight months on board the International Space Station (ISS).

NASA's Wind Spacecraft has been studying solar wind for 30 years, investigating basic plasma processes in the solar wind ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Hera probe recently completed a key manoeuvre which has set it on a path to Mars. The spacecraft will reach the red planet in March 2025 for the first gravity assist.

NASA’s Perseverance rover captured an intriguing astronomical event from Mars' Jezero Crater: a transit of the Martian moon ...