On Mars, swirling columns of dust—known as dust devils—regularly roam the landscape, sometimes colliding in dramatic displays like one recently captured by NASA’s Perseverance rover. In a rare moment, ...

NASA has taken a major step toward deep space exploration with the integration of the SLS rocket and solid rocket boosters ...

A British team has won first place in the Aqualunar Challenge for developing a system that purifies water extracted from ...

Mars and the moon will also be in conjunction tonight. If you're lucky enough to have clear skies tonight, you can catch a ...

An asteroid-chasing spacecraft just swung past Mars on Wednesday. As it zipped by, it took hundreds of shots of the Red Planet, as well as ...

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Back in 1969, when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin first set foot on the moon, scientists knew of just 31 other moons in our ...

The Keeble Observatory at Randolph-Macon College holds weekly public viewing during spring semester. Check their website ( or ...

The Hera probe from the European Space Agency (ESA) recently captured spectacular images of Deimos, the smallest moon of Mars, during a close flyby. Deimos, the moon of Mars, appears in silhouette ...

Brian May has opened up about a life changing decision he made saying he is "not proud of it." The 77-year-old Queen legend ...

But Mars is another beast. At its closest approach, that planet is 56 million kilometers away—roughly 150 times the distance to the moon. Starship cannot launch directly from the Earth and reach ...

Elon Musk announces SpaceX's Starship spacecraft could launch to Mars as early as next year, with human missions possible by 2029 or 2031. Despite recent setbacks, including a failed test flight ...