On Mercury, craters are named after “artists, musicians, painters and authors who have made outstanding or fundamental ...

Get your binoculars out! On Saturday (Jan. 4), skywatchers in the U.K. and most of Western and Central Europe will be able to ...

Idaho Falls-based landscape and wildlife photographer Evan Nelson doesn’t consider himself a “pro” photographer. He works ...

Outer space is infinite, but that hasn’t stopped humans trying to impose their laws on it. There are more ways for people to ...

Launch licenses the FAA just issued to Blue Origin and SpaceX are setting the stage for space billionaires Jeff Bezos and ...

New research published in the Earth and Planetary Science Letters journal suggests the moon's oldest crater, the South Pole-Aitken basin, may be round, as opposed to the oval shape than scientists ...

Both men were later honored by having lunar craters named after them. But what made their book so extraordinary? A major scientific question at the time centered on the nature and origin of the ...

The biggest and oldest of these scars is a monster crater, one of the largest, not just on the Moon, but in the entire Solar System. The South Pole-Aitken basin covers nearly a quarter of the Moon ...

Witness a lunar occultation of both Mars and the Pleiades; plus, Mars reaches opposition and Venus and Saturn sit close ...

The Moon’s permanently shadowed regions (PSRs), located at its poles, have long been a subject of fascination and scientific ...