As Firefly Aerospace prepared to close out a two-week mission on the moon, its lander had one final gift to beam home: the first high-definition images of a lunar sunset.

A team of geologists at the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, the Institute of Space Sciences and the Shandong ...

China’s Chang’e 6 mission uncovers evidence of a molten lunar magma ocean and a violent ancient impact.

In a groundbreaking revelation, recent lunar samples brought back by China’s Chang’e 6 mission have confirmed a crucial piece ...

New research from scientists with the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences and published in the journal Science found that ...

The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis. According to this story, when the solar system was just getting started, a Mars-size protoplanet named Theia ...

The Red Planet and its tiny moon Deimos were recorded at a very near distance as the asteroid-chasing spacecraft completed a flyby on Wednesday.

Astronomers have discovered a panoply of new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far ...

Chris Stott, founder of St. Petersburg’s Lonestar Data Holdings, relayed the news to the rest of the team on video call. An ...

“Y’all stuck the landing, we’re on the Moon,” an engineer at Firefly’s mission control in Austin, Texas, exclaimed, as cheers ...

It managed to send back pictures confirming its position, and activate a few experiments, before going silent.

The Athena lander from Intuitive Machines could not charge its batteries after ending up on its side. It largely failed to ...