The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first direct measurements of the chemical and physical ...

Scientists believe the Moon could be hiding valuable resources just beneath its surface. A new study suggests that thousands ...

NASA’s latest images of Callisto reveal a world scarred by craters, ice, and ancient mysteries. This video explores what the ...

Astronomy day 2025 is upon us! To celebrate, we've picked six targets to emphasize the variety and scale of objects visible ...

The Apollo mission recovered a fragment known as sample 76535, which showed virtually no signs of violent shocks from deep ...

The small chunk of rock could be telling us that many of the moon’s largest impacts happened over 4.25 billion years ago.

The Moon plays a critical role in reconstructing Earth’s history. Because our planet’s oldest surface layers have been erased ...

When Apollo 17 astronauts collected a small rock from the moon more than 50 years ago, they had no way of knowing it would ...

For more than 20 years, the Silverpit Crater deep under the North Sea has been the center of a heated scientific controversy. Some geologists were adamant that an asteroid produced the nearly-perfect ...

Phobos, the larger of Mar's two moons may hit the planet or break apart within the next 50 million years. It is currently ...

Scientists have finally solved a decades-long mystery about a strange crater deep under the North Sea. The Silverpit Crater, first discovered in 2002, has now been confirmed as the result of a massive ...