Many photos McCarthy has taken of the space station in the past show the ship as a silhouette in Earth's shadow. This time he ...

The call today is for binding rules to protect the orbits of Earth, Moon, and Mars from space debris contamination. Initiatives need to be formulated for effective, sustainable, and equitable ...

The Blue Ghost lunar lander, built by the Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace for NASA, launched to space on Jan. 15, and ...

Mining ocean resources needed for electric cars and other devices is currently a hot issue of dispute. Final resolution of ...

The Apollo missions landed on the moon six different times ... these chunks and powders gave scientists on Earth a closer look at some of the deepest mysteries of space: how the universe was ...

The risk of impact is likely to drop to zero as observations of Asteroid 2024 YR4 continue.

A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely referred to as a "mini-moon." Turns out the lunar-inspired moniker may have been more accurate than we realized.

In this episode of The Conversation Weekly, we speak with two people – a planetary scientist who studies the geology of the Moon, and a space lawyer who studies space policy and geopolitics – about ...

Only when the moon, Earth and the sun are perfectly aligned is the moon 100% full. And sometimes — once in a blue moon — the moon is full twice in a month (or four times in a season ...

Lightning can be used to probe Earth’s dynamic Van Allen radiation belts, directly connecting terrestrial weather and space ...

The rise of the "Snow Moon" today sets in motion a lunar orbit that will result in a total lunar eclipse for North America on ...