You can probably conjure this vision of the moon—hold the image in your mind and transmit it off this planet and onto our shining opalescent companion. Peaks in the sun? I’ve seen that. This week, we ...

Jupiter and Saturn may seem similar as gas giants, yet their vastly different moon systems reveal a deeper story shaped by ...

The Mars Moons eXploration spacecraft will fire its thrusters to maneuver into orbit around Mars (depicted in this digital ...

The moon's orientation changes quite dramatically across time and between places, largely due to differences in perspective.

The legends describe the mysterious moon-eyed people as being entirely pale-skinned, heavily bearded, and possessing uniquely shaped eyes that were extremely sensitive to sunlight. Because the bright ...

NASA has finally sent a spacecraft back to the moon, and thanks to some unprecedented photos, it turns out the moon is more ...

Titan is the largest of Saturn’s 292 known moons, by far. It’s also the only other cosmic body apart from Earth confirmed to ...

Astronomers using the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island are revealing new insight into the composition and ...

The data pipeline from NASA’s Artemis II mission opened to full blast a few hours after looping behind the far side of the Moon on Monday night, when the Orion spacecraft established a laser ...

The Chandrama Gochar on April 20, 2026, marks the Moon's entry into Taurus, its exalted sign, where it will remain until ...

For the first time since 1972, NASA is preparing to send humans toward the Moon. The Artemis II mission is intended not to land, but to test the spacecraft, systems and human spaceflight capabilities ...

The lunar south pole looks chaotic from orbit. Craters heaped upon craters, ancient basins, scarps and slopes tumbling in ...