Luna 9 was the first spacecraft to soft-land on the Moon, sending the first images from the lunar surface to Earth. The Luna ...

The moon greets Jupiter two days ahead of its full moon phase on Feb. 1. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking space news, the ...

Before a wave crashes, the tide draws back and gathers its strength. The Moon today continues its waxing journey in sensitive, intuitive Cancer. A Full Moon in Leo at the weekend brings a dramatic ...

Boise State University’s Department of Theatre, Film and Creative Writing and Department of Physics have partnered to present a one-night stage reading of Bertolt Brecht’s play, “The Life of Galileo.” ...

There’s no mistaking Jupiter in the sky these winter evenings, rising in the southeast as evening twilight ends. In fact, you should be able to easily see it long before twilight fades. Jupiter is by ...

The largest planet of the solar system, Jupiter, has a rather large family of moons that make up the complex Jovian system. Recent official lists contain names of 95 moons that orbit Jupiter, but this ...

For over 400 years, legions of lunar cartographers have been surveying the surface of the Moon — first by telescope and then by spacecraft — charting and naming its features. The resulting lunar map ...

In 1971, during the Apollo 15 mission, NASA astronaut David Scott carried out one of the most elegant scientific demonstrations in history. Standing on the Moon, 239,000 miles from Earth, he held a ...

While Io, the most volcanically active moon in the solar system, appears completely dry and devoid of water ice, its neighbor Europa is thought to harbor a vast global ocean of liquid water beneath ...

NASA is preparing to roll out its towering Artemis 2 moon rocket to Launch Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center on Jan. 17, and we will have full coverage of the major event here. The Artemis 2 moon ...