Only one of these patches of lunar plain can be Luna 9’s actual landing site – and there’s no guarantee that either of them ...

"This confirms that life's building blocks can be formed in a diversity of environments throughout the universe." ...

Free-floating planets, or as they are more commonly known, rogue planets, wander interstellar space completely alone. Saying there might be a lot of them is a bit of an understatement. Recent ...

Two rival teams — one using machine learning, the other human eyes — race to find the first spacecraft to soft-land on the moon.

This modern spiral staircase is part of a city park structure in Shenzhen, China. With clean design and open space, it ...

NASA faces backlash after a physicist claims Moon images are blurred to hide artificial alien structures, sparking fierce ...

American space resources company Interlune was awarded a $150,000 contract from NASA to advance its research into a lunar ...

Only far smaller impacts have been observed directly. In 2013, a meteoroid weighing a few hundred kilograms struck the Moon, ...

Bacteria that thrive on Earth may not make it in the alien lands of Mars. A potential deterrent is perchlorate, a toxic chlorine-containing chemical discovered in Martian soil during various space ...

A thick shell "implies a longer route that oxygen and nutrients would have to travel to connect Europa’s surface with its ...

Europa, one of Jupiter's moons NASA / Jet Propulsion Lab-Caltech / SETI Institute Europa is one of Jupiter’s 95 moons, and perhaps among the planet’s most famous orbiters. It’s covered in a shell of ...

If you want to put people back on the moon, don’t gut the agency in charge of getting them there. The senator wanted a promise. A solemn vow. For the last six years—or maybe the last decade or quarter ...