It was long thought, up until recently, that asteroids and comets delivered Earth's oceans during the early Solar System.

This video explains why our Moon is usually called simply “the Moon,” exploring historical naming conventions and how the ...

For a long time, scientists assumed that Earth's water was delivered by asteroids and comets billions of years ago. This coincided with the Late Heavy Bombardment (ca. 4.1 to 3.8 billion years ago), a ...

The craters bear the names of astronomers who revolutionized our understanding of the night sky.

Astronomers are testing a quieter way of searching for moons beyond the solar system, using careful measurements of motion ...

The fix to this problem might come in the form of tools instead of changes to the spacesuit itself. Rubins said astronauts ...

In deep-space travel, sometimes the most important “hardware” is a few inches of material that only matters for minutes. The Artemis II mission will orbit four astronauts around the Moon and return ...

As the four-person crew of Artemis II prepares to launch on a historic mission around the moon as soon as February, some ...

As NASA gears up to send four astronauts on a crewed flight around the moon in the imminent Artemis II mission, Axiom Space ...

Midnight Oil drummer and songwriter Rob Hirst was on Monday named a Member of the Order of Australia, six days after his ...

The limited-edition Moonbits box celebrates the upcoming Artemis II mission – a 10-day outer space expedition led by NASA in ...

Despite its small size, Mars seems to have a huge impact on the orbital cycles that govern Earth’s climate, especially those ...