The Earth is getting a second 'mini-moon' later this month, but it'll only last from Sept. 29 to Nov. 25, researchers say.

Traditionally, eclipse maps have been constructed from the assumption that the Moon is a perfect sphere and that all ...

Hera and its two cubesats arrived at their launch site in Florida in early September following a transatlantic flight from Germany, with a stop in Ireland. The mission's launch window opens on Oct. 7 ...

Iron carried in clouds of Saharan dust blown across the Atlantic Ocean is increasingly available to tiny life forms the further it travels.

An asteroid will come close enough to Earth to temporarily enter its orbit at the end of the month, a phenomenon dubbed as ...

Texas first passed a law in 1997 that allows astronauts to vote if they will be in space during early voting and on Election ...

NASA announced its SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station is aiming to launch Sept. 26 out of Florida.

You might think of asteroids as just rocks of various sizes floating around in space. But they’re vastly more complex than ...

After NASA decided to keep them in space until 2025, astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will now cast their votes in ...

We talked to retired astronaut Joan Higginbotham, the third Black woman to ever go into space, about her inspiring journey.

We know Mars once had an active geological past, filled with water, volcanic activity, and dynamic geological changes. Now, ...

The asteroid was discovered in August and is set to become a mini-moon, spinning around Earth in a horseshoe shape for about ...