NASA was formed in 1958 "to provide for research into problems of flight within and outside the Earth's atmosphere, and for ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has discovered a giant volcanic hot spot on the surface of Jupiter's hellish moon Io. The eruptions in ...

These bodies separated relatively quickly but remained orbitally linked to create the Pluto/Charon system we see ... our moon is just a quarter of the size of Earth, while the largest moon in ...

Io is only around the size of our own Moon, but you’d be much less likely to want to land there. Orbiting around our solar system’s biggest planet ... km journey from Earth, and has been ...

This alignment made Mars appear at its brightest and largest in over two years. We have already seen the uncommon ... the full Moon will travel through Earth's shadow to create a lunar eclipse.

THE moon is just a chunk of the Earth and not mainly part of an ancient planet as previously thought, scientists claim. Experts had believed our satellite was created when hypothetical body Theia ...

"Witness Earth eclipsing the Sun from Blue Ghost's top deck — another incredible postcard moment on our trip to the Moon!" Firefly Aerospace recently posted online. SEE ALSO: Stunning weather ...

Dwarf planet Pluto and our Earth are the only two worlds in our solar system with very large moons. These may have come about by a "kiss and capture" process, which preserves a moon's large size.