Earth's shadow follows the planet as it orbits the sun. You can get a sense of its enormous, awe-inspiring size by seeing ...

The collision bears a striking resemblance to the one thought to have created the Earth and Moon about 4.5 billion years ago.

The possibility that a huge space rock — once deemed the riskiest asteroid ever observed — could hit the moon now appears to ...

A “red alert” involving the private Blue Ghost mission in lunar orbit a year ago highlights a growing number of incidents ...

Astronomers witnessed planets colliding 11,000 light-years away, an event that could shed light on the collision that created Earth's moon.

It all started when a doctoral candidate at the University of Washington found a Sun-like star behaving strangely.

NASA said earlier this month that an asteroid that at one point had a 4% chance of hitting the moon will miss the lunar ...

According to the space agency's tracking, the rock is hurtling through space at more than 21,500 miles per hour.

A bus-size asteroid known as 2026 EG1 flew past Earth closer than the moon late Thursday. Here's what NASA had to say about ...

A US Senate committee has directed Nasa to begin work on a Moon base “as soon as is practicable”. Under legislation advanced by the Senate lawmakers, the outpost would serve as a science laboratory ...

On March 16, 1966, command pilot Neil Armstrong and pilot David Scott successfully docked their Gemini VIII spacecraft with the Agena target vehicle, the first-ever linking of two spacecraft together ...

A quiet, sunlike star in Puppis spent years behaving exactly as astronomers expected. Then its light began to dip, briefly at ...