Every year, the moon moves just a little farther away from our planet. Scientists have calculated the rate at which our ...

The Great Oxidation Event took place 2.4 billion years ago when certain bacteria started releasing a large quantity of oxygen ...

NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers, an Expedition 73 crew member aboard the International Space Station, photographed the "Flower" ...

Jumping back in time, Thuban was positioned as a North Star some 4,700 years ago, as early civilizations thrived in ...

The Weather Channel reports that the Earth’s moon is moving further away from our planet, albeit at an extremely slow pace.

IMMORDINO-YANG REPLIES: Travis points out a common misunderstanding. My colleagues and I coined “transcendent thinking” to ...

The moon spent a few million years as a volcanic wasteland, covered with ongoing eruptions that spewed from mountains and ...

We've even been asked if you could run solar cells during the long lunar night on reflected earthlight, so we decided to ...

If all goes according to plan, Resilience will touch down on June 5 within Mare Frigoris ("Sea of Cold"), a basaltic plain in ...

The moon's nearside (that is, the side facing Earth) is dark-colored and dominated by ancient lava flows, whereas the farside ...