A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely called a "mini-moon," a nickname that was more ...

Space conspiracy theories often contest established facts, nurturing curiosity and fascination. Prominent theories include ...

On January 18, the team at Firefly carried out Blue Ghost’s first engine burn, firing up the lander’s thrusters and main ...

The Blue Ghost lunar lander has captured its first images of the moon from Earth’s orbit as well as a video of Earth eclipsing the sun. See the dazzling views here.

A near-Earth object was likely ejected into space after an impact thousands of years ago. Now it could contribute new ...

An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.

DEADLY space radiation and rapid outbreaks of disease are just a few of the official Nasa dangers that visitors to Mars will face. The space agency holds a list of “five hazards of human ...

Elon Musk might have his sights set on settling Mars, but recent experiments that utilized extraterrestrial soil suggest human settlements ... as using sun reflectors to heat the planet or warming ...

habitable temperatures on our planet. The moon doesn't have an atmosphere, leaving it vulnerable to the full heat of the sun, Monnier said. Related: Will Earth ever lose its moon? Earth also has ...

Flickering coronal "loops" on the Sun are warning signs of a coming solar eruption, paving the way for better space weather ...

For the past week, an uncrewed lunar lander has been journeying through outer space on a 60-day mission to the moon on behalf ...

The car, launched in 2018 on a SpaceX rocket’s upper stage, is one of many human-made objects in deep space that could ...