The hefty space rock 2014 TN17 is large enough to wipe out a city, but it will pose no risk to our planet when it sails by ...

Theia and Earth did not combine to form Moon, a new study suggests. The Moon might be a part of only Earth, a sibling 384,400 ...

Out past Neptune are countless small icy and rocky bodies called Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), and many of these have moons ...

Astrophysicist and artist Ed Belbruno explains how art helps scientists communicate their work to the public and even ...

The final act of the Blue Ghost lander's busy two weeks on the moon was to send back sunset shots featuring Earth and Venus.

The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, conducted a series of experiments. It drilled three feet into the lunar soil, took X-ray images of the magnetic bubble that surrounds and protects Earth ...

What's on and in a star? What happens in an active galactic nucleus? Answering those questions is the goal of a proposed ...

NOIRLab shared stunning views of the total lunar eclipse in the night sky over Chile, complete with a blood red moon and ...

The Moon will reach perigee, which is the point in its elliptical orbit where it is closest to Earth, on Saturday, March 29.

On March 29, the Moon is going to enter perigee – the point in its elliptical orbit that brings it closest to Earth.

On March 29, the Moon will wedge itself between the Sun and Earth, blocking only a part of the star from our view.

A partial solar eclipse will be visible from the U.S. this weekend, but only a select few of the northernmost states are ...