We need the rare elements they hold. So, there are plans to use lasers for mining operations; and plans for processing facilities in orbit. What’s at stake? Take a look.

A rock the size of a small building struck the Moon last year. Nobody knew until a spacecraft spent 15 months going back to ...

Imagery sent back by a satellite orbiting the Moon has revealed the largest, newly formed crater ever found in the solar ...

The researchers identified the five new craters using two cameras aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has snapped a slew of spectacular shots from its orbital perch, inc ...

In a remarkable turn of events, a NASA scientist recently uncovered the largest newly formed impact crater ever documented in ...

International Observe the Moon Night offers a chance to explore the Moon, Saturn and Venus through public events or from home ...

Robert Wagner, a scientist with NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, was scanning an enlarged moon map, looking at images ...

A powerful asteroid impact carved a massive new crater into the moon’s surface, creating a landmark discovery for NASA scientists and honoring lunar scientist Tom McGetchin.

Sometime between April 11 and May 22, 2024, a significant celestial event occurred when a comet or an asteroid, roughly the ...

Although they would be exceedingly rare, there is evidence that suggests our Sun is capable of producing solar flares that ...

McGetchin crater is a 728-foot hole a building-sized rock punched in the Moon in 2024, the largest new crater ever found, ...

It measures 728 feet wide — the length of two football fields — and 141 feet deep, enough to fit three vertically stacked ...