The installation of habitats, landing pads, equipment shelters, tall towers on the moon could be off to a shaky start.

Planetary scientists are confident this moon of Jupiter harbors a deep ocean. A looming question is whether it hosts the ...

You can see the astroid, named 2024 PT5, for a short time before it heads on its way.

An asteroid heading towards Earth is set to have an unusual fate: instead of smashing through our planet’s atmosphere, it’s ...

The three-quarter moon rose over Europe last week as serene and remote as ever, but dropping faster and faster through its gravitational field was a small, alien object: a metal sphere blazoned ...

NEW YORK – New York magazine says its highly regarded Washington correspondent, Olivia Nuzzi, is on leave after disclosing she violated the publication’s standards by having a personal relationship wi ...

Watching for changes in the Red Planet’s orbit over time could be a new way to detect passing dark matter. MIT physicists ...

A rare mini-moon, a small asteroid temporarily captured by Earth's gravity, will briefly orbit the planet for two months.

The asteroid was discovered in August and is set to become a mini-moon, spinning around Earth in a horseshoe shape for about ...

Earth is getting a visitor in our orbit for a couple of months.It's nowhere near the size of our actual moon, but they're ...

The asteroid is expected to make a “horseshoe path” around Earth over the next two months, researchers wrote in a recent ...