The Orion crew module gets stacked onto the Space Launch System in preparation for the upcoming Artemis 2 mission in early ...

Earth has a new moon-like object, known as a "mini-moon," orbiting our planet. This phenomenon is a temporary capture of ...

Mercury is the innermost and smallest of the eight major planets in our Solar System, orbiting closest to the Sun. Though ...

Understanding the moon’s seismic activity is critical to the success or failure of future lunar missions. Lunar seismic ...

Scientists traced the Moon's parent planet Theia to the inner Solar System, solving a 4.5-billion-year mystery.

The Artemis missions are humanity’s return to the Moon’s surface for the first time since the 1960s. Artemis II will bring ...

Jupiter's moon Io may host alien life in protected lava tubes. Now, Avi Loeb claims the anomalous interstellar object ...

There are several frozen moons in our solar system, orbiting the gas giants. Some of them, despite having temperatures that would make Antarctica feel tropical, have liquid water under the surface.

The agency’s proposed European Resilience from Space (ERS) project secured almost all the funding it had sought. It aims to ...

The outer planets of the solar system are swarmed by ice-wrapped moons. Some of these, such as Saturn's moon Enceladus, are ...

A U.S.-Russian crew of three began a mission to the International Space Station aboard a Russian spacecraft following a ...