China launches Tianwen-2 mission to sample near Earth asteroid China launched its second planetary exploration mission ...

Of the roughly 6,000 exoplanets we’ve discovered, a significant number are in the apparent habitable zones of their stars.

Scientists may have solved the mystery of why the moon shows ancient signs of magnetism although it has no magnetic field today. An impact, such as from a large asteroid, could have generated a cloud ...

Where did the moon's magnetism go? Scientists have puzzled over this question for decades, ever since orbiting spacecraft ...

Two new studies used gravity data to pull back the curtain on the deep interiors of the Moon and one of the solar system’s largest asteroids.

China's first asteroid sample-return mission, Tianwen 2, is scheduled for launch within the next two weeks from the Xichang ...

New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have revealed that auroras on Jupiter are hundreds of times brighter ...

These minimoons offer a unique opportunity to study the Moon's impact history and could serve as targets for future space missions. Minimoons are minor bodies temporarily held in Earth's gravity.

A Texan company has achieved the second commercial landing on the moon – and the first that ... navigation satellite constellations orbiting Earth in order to provide location and timing data ...

A new video from the mission shows the Earth setting and rising behind the moon just after the spacecraft made its second lunar orbit maneuver. Earth rise, Earth set, repeat! The video shows the ...

NASA's Blue Ghost lunar lander has arrived at the moon and is now orbiting Earth's ... Blue Ghost executed its second engine burn, adjusting its orbit around Earth once again.

It's the first moonshot for Firefly and the second for ispace, which crashed its first lander into the moon in 2023. Tokyo-based ispace's latest lander, Resilience, is still orbiting Earth and ...