More than 50 years after the most recent crewed moon landing — Apollo 17 in December 1972 — there are plenty of reasons to ...
The moon is typically 238,900 miles from Earth but will be just 226,000 ... low in the sky and sets an hour after the sun, it ...
The sun’s magnetic activity causes auroras, and the relationship between solar flares and auroras reveals an 11-year cycle; ...
The asteroid, named 2024 VX3, will pass us at a distance of 92,100 miles, closer than the moon's 238,900-mile orbit.
This study presents the first physical evidence that Snowball Earth reached the heart of continents at the equator.' ...
New research funded by NASA into the potential formation of solar vortices may finally solve the mystery at the sun's poles.
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international cooperation of NASA and the European and Canadian space agencies, a ...
A team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids and comets with new solar data sets to develop a revised solar composition that potentially reconciles ...
November's full moon, also known as the Beaver Moon, is the last of four consecutive supermoons occurring in 2024.
A reassessment of data from NASA's Voyager 2 has revealed that Uranus' moon Miranda may contain a subsurface ocean, challenging assumptions about its potential for life.
Much of the knowledge about Uranus was gleaned when NASA's robotic spacecraft Voyager 2 conducted a five-day flyby in 1986 ...
A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...