An asteroid will come close enough to Earth to temporarily enter its orbit at the end of the month, a phenomenon dubbed as ...

A Mars scientist shares the inside story of the NASA Curiosity rover's poignant first photo of Earth and Mars moon Phobos ...

Earth is getting another “mini” moon this month, and a University of Iowa astronomer said the school bus-sized meteor ...

Astronomy enthusiasts are in for another treat this year as a multifaceted celestial event will occur at the same time during ...

"It has the landscape; it looks like the Moon. And it has the scale of features astronauts will both be observing and ...

We know that the moon once had a lot of volcanic activity. The most common rock on the moon’s surface is basalt, a well-known ...

Scientists creating a gravity map of Mars have discovered the presence of mysterious large-scale structures hidden beneath a ...

China's Chang'e 5 mission brought back evidence that the moon had erupting volcanoes just 120 million years ago.

But there are hints that small-scale volcanism continued until much more recent times. Observations from space have identified terrain that seems to be the product of eruptions, but only has a limited ...

Vibrant auroras could be visible as far south as Oregon and Pennsylvania tonight as Earth reels from a "strong" G3-class ...

At PST Art, a huge Southern California event where art and science collide, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is inviting ...

The asteroid collision that killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago may have been a major cosmic crack-up, but it was ...