STORY: NASA will send four astronauts on a ten-day voyage around the moon in 2026 - the latest step in a mission to land ...

Scientists measure the distance to the Moon by bouncing lasers off mirrors placed there by space probes and astronauts.

Earth has a newly discovered—albeit temporary—companion in its journey around the sun. In research published this month in ...

Every so often, Jupiter's strong gravity sends an asteroid hurtling through the solar system, sometimes towards Earth. Last ...

It has been suggested that lava tubes - underground tunnels carved out by molten rock - might be on Venus, and now we have ...

Scientists have presented the "first compelling evidence for the existence of lava tubes on Venus." And they're way bigger ...

U.S. scientists confirm Earth's new quasi-moon, 2025 PN7, sharing our orbit for 60 more years. Learn how quasi-moons work and ...

NASA's Artemis II astronauts will embark on the first crewed U.S. mission to the moon in half a century. It could launch early in 2026.

SLS is a super heavy-lift launch vehicle capable of taking astronauts to destinations all over the solar system, including ...

Earth is the only planet in our solar system with a single moon, making it a rare phenomenon for a planet of its kind.

Lunar minerals generate the rust mineral hematite when bombarded with high-energy oxygen particles, experiments show.

Sceptics term the Artemis mission too ambitious and risky but space exploration has led to surprising advances in science and engineering ...