The Moon is covered in vast numbers of craters, some larger than entire Earth-based Nations, which may serve as dome habitats ...

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"The temperature just wildly swings from extremely hot to extremely cold," John Monnier, a professor of astronomy at the ...

Accessible to anyone the world over, witnessing the majesty of the solar system, including the Milky Way, and its billions of ...

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 ...

A photo taken in Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve is now part of a U.S. Department of Interior collection.

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

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