I/ATLAS is notable for being only the third confirmed interstellar comet to pass through our solar system. Unlike typical comets that are gravitationally bound to the sun, 3I/ATLAS follows a ...

New study provides clearer insight into how the Moon formed and why its materials closely resemble those of Earth.

Today, Earth’s moon is uninhabitable and does not contain a trace of life. It does not have much of an atmosphere, a drop of ...

The final eclipse of 2025 will unfold this weekend, but despite some of the hype online, most of the world will miss the ...

A gem of a find by The Public Domain Review of a collection from the Rijksmuseum: photographs of plaster models of the ...

For the past three months the chatter of the Arctic Tern colony has served as the soundtrack of the summer breeding season.

"This implies that the eastern Mare Imbrium basin may be the current seismically active area of the moon," he said. "If a long-term lunar base is to be established in the future, we should avoid such ...

Venus is a planet, much like the Earth, except that it’s enshrouded by poisonous clouds that hold its surface temperature hotter than a pizza oven. On Sept. 19, it will lie some 135 million miles away ...

It is often seen as the scourge of modern society, littering our highways, byways and beaches. But now a new study argues ...

The crescent moon will shine with Jupiter among the stars of Gemini early on Sept. 16. Turn your eyes to the east in the ...

New research from NASA has found that the dwarf planet Ceres may be another place to look for evidence of primitive life in our solar system.

So the bottom line is that the gravity of the closer tidal bulge on the Earth is pulling the Moon forward, which increases the size of the Moon’s orbit. This means that the Moon gets slightly farther ...