I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also applies to northern hemisphere mid-northern ...

Everything you need to know about the full moon in 2025, from the exact dates and times of full moons to details about ...

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The moon may have received a volcanic facelift, making it more than 100 million years older than rocks collected from its ...

The Drake Passage, between the southern tip of South America and Antarctic, is infamous as one of the most dangerous journeys on the planet. But why is it so rough – and how can you cross safely?

The Geminid meteor shower peaked overnight on Dec. 13 and 14, lighting up the skies as impressive meteors struck Earth's ...

A new study published on December 18 in Nature offers a way to explain that 150-million-year gap. Computer modeling and ...

NASA shared a slow motion video of the forward bay cover jettison test, which was completed on Nov. 23. The test demonstrated ...

Early interactions with the Earth may have heated up the Moon and caused it to remelt, producing new lunar rocks and erasing ...

The Moon, our ancient companion, might be older than we think. While lunar rocks suggest an age of 4.35 billion years, new ...

Further analysis of lunar rocks and modeling will help scientists to better understand the moon and its history ...

There's a full moon shining in every calendar month of 2025 on these dates: Jan. 13, Feb. 12, March 14, April 13, May 12, ...