Researchers analyzed lunar soil brought back by China's Chang'e-6, the first spacecraft to return with a haul of rocks and ...

New research confirms volcanoes were erupting on the far side of the moon billions of years ago. Researchers analyzed lunar ...

Rocks returned by China’s Chang’e-6 mission suggest volcanic activity just 2.8 billion years ago but lack telltale heat-generating elements.

China is expected to push forward in its quest to build the first lunar base on Friday, launching an in-space experiment to ...

New research explores if the moon was captured by Earth or formed by a collision. Scientists weigh theories, analyzing lunar ...

Astronomers have been curious about the makeup of Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, ever since its discovery by ...

A town in the Austrian Alps might not seem like the most conducive place to come up with daring space missions. But, for the ...

Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space ...

This is Mars's moon Phobos. Today ... So we can pair those together. So how does Triton fit in? Well, its surface is mainly nitrogen ice, and it's much smaller. It doesn't fit with either of ...

When she tries to get her father to listen to her, regarding humans, he refuses, and after being demanded by him to obey his every rule and not to go to the surface again, she tearfully swims off, ...

Will the next human to walk on the Moon be American or Chinese? In all, 12 Americans landed on the lunar surface between 1969 and 1972; no other country has sent a single citizen to the Moon.