Have you ever wondered why we always see the same side of the Moon, no matter where we are on Earth? While the Moon appears ...

The moon, Earth's closest neighbor, is among the strangest planetary bodies in the solar system. Its orbit lies unusually far away from Earth, with a surprisingly large orbital tilt. Planetary ...

In 1975, a meet-up between American and Soviet spacefarers in orbit showed that the superpowers could work together. Its ...

How to orbit the moon from home. Created by artist Seán Doran, the four-hour reconstruction of the orbit of the moon allows you to get a (relatively) up-close look at all the craters, wrinkles ...

While the term “planet” has a clear definition, there is no strict definition of a moon. We can either say that there is one moon around Earth, or more than 160 million moons.

That set the stage for Wednesday's lunar orbit insertion, or LOI, burn on the far side of the moon. The make-or-break maneuver slowed the spacecraft, nicknamed "Odie," by 1,789 mph to put the ...

Astronomers want to unlock the secrets of the "Cosmic Dawn" by sending a miniature spacecraft to listen out for an "ancient ...

The "near-rectilinear halo orbit" planned for CAPSTONE and NASA's Gateway lunar space station comes within 1,000 miles of the moon's north pole with a high point of some 43,000 miles above the ...

The mini-moon, nicknamed 2024 PTS, will orbit the Earth in a horseshoe pattern before the gravity of other objects in our solar system pull it off. It will return to orbit the Earth again in 2055.