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

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

On January 8, 1973, the Soviet Union launched the Luna 21 mission to land a rover on the moon. This was the second time that ...

With 10 instruments and technology tests, Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander is part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload ...

How old is the Moon? Astronaut-gathered samples from the lunar surface put its age at about 4.35 billion years. However, ...

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

The prospect of “space water wars” is nearer, timewise, than the prospect of providing clean drinking water to everyone in ...

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 ...

Intuitive Machines announced final integration of Nokia's Lunar Surface Communication System into the IM-2 mission lander, ...

Today Intuitive Machines, Inc. (Nasdaq: LUNR, LUNRW) (“Intuitive Machines”) and Nokia (NYSE: NOK, Euronext: NOKIA) announced ...

"I never dreamed of Webb seeing them in such large numbers." ...