The nickname “Buzz” came from the way his sister Fay Ann said the word buzzer instead of brother. As a fighter pilot in the Korean War, he completed 66 F-86 combat missions, destroyed two MiG’s, ...

Pluto likely acquired large moon Charon in a “kiss and capture” collision billions of years ago. It may have created a subsurface ocean on the icy dwarf planet.

Researchers accounted for the previously overlooked structures of the dwarf planet and moon in computer simulations of a ...

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Even after being diagnosed with brain cancer, Carter remained focused: “I’d like the last Guinea worm to die before I do,” he ...

César León Jr., Washington University in St. Louis (THE CONVERSATION) NASA’s upcoming Artemis II mission is slated to return astronauts to the Moon no sooner than April 2026. Astronauts were last on ...

A new study suggests the moon is 4.51 billion years old, 100 million years older than previously thought. This revised age is based on the re-melting of lunar rocks due to Earth's gravitational ...

A private mission to the moon will launch next month to pave the way for humanity's return to the lunar surface. Ghost Riders in the Sky - the mission name chosen by US start-up Firefly Aerospace ...

Mysterious dark spot observed on Enceladus fades over time Enceladus’ icy plumes may explain the vanishing feature NASA’s Cassini mission images reveal the anomaly’s disappearance ...