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A subtle pattern hidden in spacecraft images has revealed that rocks are actively traveling between the asteroid Didymos and ...

This month's new moon occurs at 9:23 p.m. EDT on March 18 (0223 GMT on March 19) as the lunar disk passes between the sun and Earth. Around this time, the lunar disk is invisible from our perspective, ...

NASA's Artemis II mission is sending humans back to the moon for the first time since the Apollo era. Here are the reasons ...

Asteroids! From 2024 YR 4's possible lunar impact to the DART mission's impact of Dimophos, we look at how scientists are ...

A Greek student astronomer has identified compelling evidence of a dramatic planetary collision unfolding around a distant ...

Looking out to the future, we see a gradual but also very important shift occurring right under our feet; the Earth's own ...

When Anastasios Tzanidakis was sifting through some older telescope observations, he stumbled across something that should ...

One particularly well-known fact about the moon is that it doesn't have much of a magnetosphere to speak of. There's no blanket to protect it from the solar wind ravaging its surface, blowing away its ...

Astronomers have uncovered evidence of a dramatic cosmic crash unfolding around a distant star. While reviewing archived ...

On March 16, 1926, Clark University professor Robert Goddardfired up a rocket nicknamed “Nell,” powered by a blend of ...

NASA’s DART mission successfully altered an asteroid’s orbit, but scientists now say the impact also shifted the path of the ...