In 2026, astronauts will travel around the moon for the first time since the Apollo era, powerful new space telescopes will ...

Saturn reigns supreme when it comes to the number of moons orbiting any solar system planet. Including the 128 ...

(THE CONVERSATION) In 2026, astronauts will travel around the Moon for the first time since the Apollo era, powerful new ...

The year 2026 will feature 13 full moons, including a rare monthly blue moon in May. Three supermoons, when the moon appears larger and brighter, will occur in January, November and December. A blue ...

The mystery of how Mars acquired its moons, Phobos and Deimos, may start to be unravelled in 2026 with the launch of a spacecraft that will eventually bring a chunk of Phobos back to Earth. “We are ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will establish an ad hoc committee to review and assess recent research sponsored by NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) relating to ...

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A Mars crater may have once contained water that sloshed back and forth as a tide came and went. If that is true, it follows that Mars must have had a moon that was massive enough to exert a ...

Searching for clues on Phobos and Deimos. Mars has been studied and scrutinized more than any alien world. Since 1964, some 40 expeditions have been dispatched to the Red Planet. Orbiting spacecraft ...

Small, icy moons might be boiling under their surface. Many moons in the outer solar system are thought to harbor subsurface oceans beneath their icy crusts. New computer simulations, reported ...

Astronomers recently detected a stray quasi-moon in our planet’s orbit, but it's hardly the first stowaway to hang out around Earth. Unlike the Earth's moon, quasi-moons are not gravitationally bound ...