H ere's a sentence which, while technically correct, will make you sound like the most hardened of conspiracy theorists: no ...

Scientists have hypothesized since the 1960s that the sun is a source of ingredients that form water on the moon. When a ...

Covered in rivers and lakes of liquid methane, icy boulders and dunes of soot-like "sand," its topography has long fascinated ...

The Lyrids are expected to peak April 21 and April 22, according to NASA. On those nights, the moon will be at 40% brightness ...

Humanity’s plans to build homes on the Moon are no longer just dreams; they're becoming a scientific reality. Scientists are ...

“some of the light coming straight across the atmosphere at sunset and sunrise gets bent and redirected into Earth’s shadow.” (The darkest part of Earth’s shadow, by the way, where the ...

Saturn’s largest moon might not be the barren world it seems. Beneath Titan’s icy crust lies a vast ocean of liquid ...

It took just 1 hour and 40 minutes for the moon's shadow to race more than 4,000 miles (6,500 kilometers) across the ...

That's because of how sunlight strikes the moon's surface after passing through the atmosphere. When the moon moves into the inner part of Earth's shadow, or umbra, according to NASA, some of the ...

A large asteroid whose chances of hitting Earth have been all but ruled out is now slightly more likely to hit the Moon than ...