On Jan. 13, bright Mars will disappear behind the full moon for several hours. It's the only lunar occultation of Mars ...

Among all the challenges of voyaging to and successfully landing on other worlds, the effective collection and study of soil ...

Venus is particularly bright in the night sky this month, outshining even Sirius, the brightest star. For observers at ...

Pluto and its largest moon Charon could have come together via a 10-hour ‘kiss-and-capture’ encounter after a grazing ...

US company Firefly Aerospace said Tuesday it is aiming to launch a lander to the moon next week under an experimental NASA ...

Space fans won't have to wait long for major launches to begin in 2025. NASA is kicking off the new year with a big mission ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander is now scheduled to launch to the moon at 1:11 a.m. EST (0611 GMT) on Wednesday, ...

Researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have calculated a new system for measuring lunar time. While not needed ...

The Space Coast is set for another busy year in 2025 with new moon missions, new spacecraft and the debut of a new rocket.

Simulations suggest Pluto and its largest moon may have gently stuck together for a few hours before Charon settled into a ...

The first full moon of 2025 is nearly here. Dubbed the "wolf moon" for its connection to wolves calling on those long January ...

Pluto's big moon Charon may have a different origin story than scientists suspected. New research suggests the two bodies ...