Researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have calculated a new system for measuring lunar time. While not needed ...

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is calling for NASA to ditch its Moon program, arguing that the "Moon is a distraction" and that "we're ...

Lunar samples collected by NASA astronauts during the Apollo Moon landings have a curious habit of being destroyed, stolen, ...

Overturning decades of assumptions about how Charon formed, researchers have revealed an entirely new form of cosmic ...

Pluto and Charon may have formed through a “kiss and capture” mechanism, with the two icy bodies colliding and becoming ...

Pluto's big moon Charon may have a different origin story than scientists suspected. New research suggests the two bodies ...

NASA has plans to return humans to the moon with the Artemis mission—but Elon Musk’s preference for Mars could have influence ...

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

NASA’s LEXI will study Earth’s magnetosphere from the lunar surface, uncovering how it responds to solar winds and cosmic ...

Three launch systems and two landers from Boeing, SpaceX, and Blue Origin are all part of the complicated puzzle of NASA’s ...

NASA has long been highly visible and is among the most celebrated programs in modern United States history. Some generations ...

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