This “kiss and capture” mechanism offers a fresh perspective on planetary formation, particularly about Pluto and its largest ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...

New Yorkers will be able to see a total lunar eclipse and three consecutive supermoons over the course of the year's 12 full ...

"The temperature just wildly swings from extremely hot to extremely cold," John Monnier, a professor of astronomy at the ...

The moon, Earth’s nearest celestial neighbor, has fascinated humanity for centuries. Its presence in art, literature, and ...

The love story between Pluto and Charon may have started with a kiss. A new study suggests the dwarf planet and its scarcely smaller moon likely came together in a collision that saw them conjoined ...

Captured from the ISS, a stunning image of the waning crescent Moon over Quebec showcases the distinct vantage point of space ...

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

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

NASA’s LEXI will study Earth’s magnetosphere from the lunar surface, uncovering how it responds to solar winds and cosmic ...

Billions of years ago, in the frigid outer reaches of our solar system, two icy worlds collided. Rather than destroying each ...

Learn key facts about the Moon: from its significant distance and relative size compared to Earth to its distinctive color ...