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Pluto and Charon may have formed through a “kiss and capture” mechanism, with the two icy bodies colliding and becoming ...

Christmas in space? NASA astronauts Sunita "Suni" Williams and Barry "Butch" Wilmore surely didn't think they'd still be on the International Space Station for Christmas when they left Earth in June.

January's full Moon peaks at about 5:30 EST on the 13th—earlier as you go westward, though; for example, in Houston, it peaks at 4:26 p.m., and in Sacramento the full Moon peaks at 2:26.

The moon is about 240,000 miles away from Earth. That's enough space to fit 30 Earths in between. Sometimes, it snuggles a little closer, and sometimes it's a little farther away. When you look up ...

The Isaacman nomination has prompted speculation in some quarters that NASA's Artemis moon program, relying on the agency's costly Space Launch System rocket and Orion crew capsule, could face ...

Types of data used to create some of the sonifications include visual and ultraviolet light from the Hubble Space Telescope, infrared and visual light from the James Webb Space Telescope, and infrared ...

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Two stranded NASA astronauts, who have been stuck on the International Space Station (ISS) for seven months, just got their return mission extended again. The launch of the next astronaut crew, ...

The duo traveled to the ISS in June for a test mission, but their return was extended by eight months to February.

Under this program, the space agency sends its payloads to the Moon via private robotic missions to prepare for the next human Moon landing in 2027. Firefly has named its first CLPS mission Ghost ...

"You can't necessarily use the ages recorded by rocks to tell when the moon formed," study lead author Francis Nimmo, a planetary scientist at the University of California Santa Cruz, told Space.com.