Venus and Saturn will align with a crescent moon to create the illusion of a smiley face in the sky on the morning of April ...

There’s something about viewing Earth from space — the shift in perspective has for decades moved us emotionally, scientifically, and philosophically. The iconic Earthrise image of our planet rising ...

Here’s a little spoiler for next month’s Cosmic Calendar: early May will see the return of the Eta Aquarid meteor shower. The ...

New research suggests meteor showers are so unpredictable due to the Sun’s own motion around the solar‑system barycenter.

THE odds of a "city killer" asteroid that once threatened Earth instead smashing into the moon have just doubled. YR4 was feared to be on a deadly collision course with our planet, with the chance ...

Led by Dr Felix Lang of the University of Potsdam, the research team focused on two unavoidable truths about future lunar life: Settlers will need a lot of solar power, and shipping bulky, Earth-made ...

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This striking satellite footage shows the moon's shadow racing across North ... This spacecraft is geostationary, meaning that it orbits Earth at the same speed as the planet spins, allowing ...

Whilst Earth is in the clear, there is a new threat from the speeding space rock. Physicists say there is a significant chance it could smash into the moon - our only orbital satellite.

An asteroid that set off a global effort to determine if it would impact Earth in 2032 is no longer a threat to our planet. However, chances of a hit to the Moon are increasing. In March, the powerful ...

According to the Agence France-Presse (AFP), Yana’s examiners described the roughly four-foot-tall calf as smelling like a “mixture of fermented earth and flesh” after spending tens of ...

It's possible that Earth-based microbes hitching a ride on spacecraft and astronauts that landed on the moon could have contaminated the lunar surface, potentially taking up residence inside PSRs ...