The Perseids meteor shower will be active during the new moon in July. Here's when you can catch the celestial show in ...

Tuesday, July 22 will be the second-shortest day of the year, as Earth completes a full rotation in less time than usual. The ...

The moon's thin atmosphere, called an exosphere, has been a puzzle to science for some time. Two main processes were thought ...

Harvard & Smithsonian has discovered a rare object far beyond Neptune, from a class known as trans-Neptunian objects, th ...

A new study from the University of Florida analyzing moon rock samples from a Chinese lunar exploration mission is rewriting ...

The earth doesn’t rotate exactly on schedule. Scientists believe that today is going to be around a millisecond short of a ...

New device heats lunar soil with concentrated sunlight to extract water and simultaneously converts CO2 into oxygen.

The DSCOVR satellite's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) captured the moon transit the Earth. Credit: Space.com | ...

July 9, 2025, saw the Earth spin through one of its shortest days on record a fleeting, nanosecond instant that passed ...

China's Tianwen-2 probe has commenced its decade-long deep space mission, capturing a stunning image of Earth and the Moon from 590,000 kilometers awa ...

Through GLOBE, people around the world learn how to document and share useful information about their local environment with scientists. Launched on Earth Day in 1995, GLOBE connects scientists, ...

The Earth-Moon system has long been a subject of fascination and study. One of the most accepted theories is that around 4.5 billion years ago, a Mars-sized planet named Theia collided with Earth in a ...