A final "gee-whiz" fact you can reveal to your friends is that what you are seeing in Monday's sky is an illusion of ...

The resources tucked away in asteroids promise to provide the building blocks of humanity's expansion into space. However, accessing those resources can prove tricky. There's the engineering challenge ...

The ever-shifting phases of Earth's moon present a wealth of targets for amateur astronomers to explore, ranging from ...

August’s Full Sturgeon Moon shines brightly in the sky tonight, showing off the rayed crater Tycho in the south.

In April 2025, China reportedly unveiled plans to build a nuclear power plant on the Moon by 2035. This plant would support ...

To make the Moon look so large in the background, photographers need to use superzoom telephoto lenses of at least 1,000mm ...

Mountain ranges, volcanic plains, and lots of craters make the Moon a target you’ll return to again and again.

This August, the night sky will give us one of its most beautiful spectacles: the Sturgeon Moon. Find out when it will be at ...

I don't think space or lunar tourism is going to be the big draw that transforms the moon into something unrecognizable.

NASA views Craters of the Moon as an analog to the moon, Mars and other planetary bodies. The North Highway Flow’s silicon- and titanium-rich lava rocks are the result of an eruptive period ...

Simply put, the moon is useful in a way that no other astronomical object is. That's because it's the nearest, most easily ...

The acceleration of nuclear development is part of the Trump administration’s efforts to focus NASA on human spaceflight. A ...