Recent research has shed light on the role of the Moon’s largest impact crater in explaining the stark visual and geological differences between the Moon’s near side, which faces Earth, and its far ...

As of Thursday, Nov. 6, the moon phase is Waning Gibbous. This means 98% of the moon is lit up tonight, according to NASA's ...

The Rock and Roll with NASA Challenge offers $155,000 in prizes for top designs that can handle the punishing surface of the ...

A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

As NASA prepared astronauts for its second mission into space, National Geographic had exclusive behind-the-scenes access for ...

Had one hoped to leave a time capsule for today’s Bostonians in the Permian period 250 million years ago, much less the Pliocene epoch four million years ago , they would have been completely, utterly ...

I think it was at this moment, on the beach, that everything seemed the most possible. That our sister was alive and in that ...

The High Resolution Stereo Imaging camera onboard ESA’s Mars Express captured this frosty scene in the Ultimi Scopuli region ...

"Over time, the rays will darken to the shade of the surrounding regolith as the material is exposed to space weathering," ...

Astronomers recently detected a stray quasi-moon in our planet’s orbit, but it's hardly the first stowaway to hang out around ...

Earth has picked up a new traveling companion – an asteroid named 2025 PN7 that now moves through space in step with us. This ...