Researchers consider studying the lunar surface critical to understanding the origin of the moon, as well as conditions on ...

Space is all around us. We live on planet Earth but there are loads more planets up in space. There are also stars and moons. The closest star to Earth is the Sun. In our solar system there are 8 ...

Autumn brings longer, cooler and clearer nights. Summer’s bright constellations and dense star clouds of the Milky Way give ...

Earth to get a second moon this month, scientists reveal - Space rock to orbit Earth for brief period between September and ...

Photos from the Juno probe show a new volcano on Io, a moon of Jupiter. As observed through satellite monitoring, the ...

John Wheeler is Chief Meteorologist for WDAY, a position he has had since May of 1985. Wheeler grew up in the South, in ...

Cornell University astronomers studying Jupiter's moon Io say tidal heating may help support life in the oceans of Jupiter's ...

Researchers at MIT suggest that the microscopic "primordial black holes" could be blasting through our solar system at least ...

The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) spacecraft, barreling through our solar system, recently used Earth's gravity to ...

For astronauts venturing out into the Solar System, it's not just the cold vacuum of space that poses a major hazard. On ...

I’ve had a love affair with the planet Saturn ever since I first saw it through my first telescope almost 60 years ago. Even though the image was tiny, I could see the ring system around the great ...

Watching for changes in the Red Planet’s orbit over time could be a new way to detect passing dark matter. MIT physicists ...