Charon is large in size relative to Pluto, and is locked in a tight orbit with the dwarf planet. A new simulation suggests how it ended up there.

The agency is starting down two different paths toward the samples' return, but only one will bring the red rocks home.

A new exhibition at the Louvre takes visitors on a visual journey, exploring how the figure of the fool evolved between the ...

Nearly 415 years ago to the day astronomer Galileo Galilei discovered the moons surrounding Jupiter looking through his homemade telescope.

With 10 instruments and technology tests, Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander is part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload ...

Firefly Aerospace will team up with NASA to explore the lunar surface's Gruithuisen Domes, using sophisticated instruments ...

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

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

Stephen Hawking was born exactly 300 years after Galileo Galilei died. Their death and birth, exactly 300 years apart on ...

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SpaceX and NASA are targeting Jan. 15 for the launch of the private Blue Ghost moon lander from Kennedy Space Center in ...

A piece of fabric from the Wright Flyer, the first powered airplane to sustain flight, will soon be on display at the ...