New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...

WASP-121b is like nothing in the solar system, raining liquid metal and being puffy like a marshmallow. The origins of these ...

Because its orbit around the sun closely matches Earth's, astronomers determined that the "mini-moon" likely originated from nearby in our solar system. Now, research published this month in the ...

But surprisingly, the object’s orbit around the sun is similar to Earth’s ... “The total size and properties of the population are directly related to how often the moon produces these ...

A private US spacecraft headed to the moon has captured breathtaking images of Earth during its journey. Firefly Aerospace's lunar lander, named Blue Ghost, is currently orbiting Earth and recently ...

Situated in the Arctic Circle, Norway is known as the Land of the Midnight Sun. For about 76 days from May to late July, Norway becomes a country without night. The sun remains up for around 20 ...

This breakthrough was achieved using the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), a nuclear fusion reactor often referred to as the "artificial sun." A Step Toward Unlimited Energy ...

The goal was to find a name for one of Earth's seven known quasi-moons ... In truth, however, a quasi-moon follows an orbit around the sun (like an asteroid would) rather than the respective ...

The update was released along with a timelapse video that shows Earth eclipsing the sun as seen from the perspective of the lander while en route to the moon. The instrument about which NASA ...

One week ago, a private lunar lander left the ground on a nearly 7-week journey to reach the surface of the moon ... Earth, including a video captured from its top deck of Earth eclipsing the sun ...