"BepiColombo's main mission phase may only start two years from now, but all six of its flybys of Mercury have given us invaluable new information about the little-explored planet." ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft is due to start orbiting Mercury next year, but a recent flyby has captured breathtaking images of ...

Artemis delays raise questions about NASA's 2027 moon landing goal. Can the US maintain its lead in space exploration?

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander will fly a 60-day mission to deliver a suite of NASA science equipment to the ...

On Jan. 13, bright Mars will disappear behind the full moon for several hours. It's the only lunar occultation of Mars ...

On January 8, 1973, the Soviet Union launched the Luna 21 mission to land a rover on the moon. This was the second time that ...

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

How old is the Moon? Astronaut-gathered samples from the lunar surface put its age at about 4.35 billion years. However, ...

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Accessible to anyone the world over, witnessing the majesty of the solar system, including the Milky Way, and its billions of ...

The Moon is covered in vast numbers of craters, some larger than entire Earth-based Nations, which may serve as dome habitats ...

The prospect of “space water wars” is nearer, timewise, than the prospect of providing clean drinking water to everyone in ...