The Moon is covered in vast numbers of craters, some larger than entire Earth-based Nations, which may serve as dome habitats ...

On Jan. 13, bright Mars will disappear behind the full moon for several hours. It's the only lunar occultation of Mars ...

"The temperature just wildly swings from extremely hot to extremely cold," John Monnier, a professor of astronomy at the ...

February 22, 2025 will be Charles Lyell’s 150th anniversary. This great Scottish geologist, who is buried in Westminster ...

Accessible to anyone the world over, witnessing the majesty of the solar system, including the Milky Way, and its billions of ...

A photo taken in Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve is now part of a U.S. Department of Interior collection.

On Mercury, craters are named after “artists, musicians, painters and authors who have made outstanding or fundamental ...

Launch licenses the FAA just issued to Blue Origin and SpaceX are setting the stage for space billionaires Jeff Bezos and ...

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander will fly a 60-day mission to deliver a suite of NASA science equipment to the ...

Get your binoculars out! On Saturday (Jan. 4), skywatchers in the U.K. and most of Western and Central Europe will be able to ...

Space fans won't have to wait long for major launches to begin in 2025. NASA is kicking off the new year with a big mission ...

Outer space is infinite, but that hasn’t stopped humans trying to impose their laws on it. There are more ways for people to ...