After decades of searching, astronomers may have finally stumbled upon the first moon known to exist beyond our solar ...

Searching for exomoons—moons that orbit around another planet—was one of the most exciting capabilities expected of the James ...

A unique species living at the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site has evolved to have a special ability which could help humans ...

During Apollo 14, hundreds of seeds were secretly carried around the Moon and later planted across the world—creating the mysterious “Moon Trees” whose locations NASA is still trying to track down.

Once that Starship is captured and SpaceX engineers examine it, Space Center Houston would seem to be the perfect place to ...

Cassini detected fresh organic compounds in ice plumes from Enceladus’s subsurface ocean, strengthening the moon’s potential ...

Upon observing the universe with regular persistence, one may arrive at the confusing discovery that it is both methodical ...

A video showing what appears to be two moons in Michigan has raised questions online, but astronomers say the sight has no ...

Which planet is the furthest from the sun? Some may think it’s Pluto, but it’s actually Neptune. Learn more about this ice giant and how it can help us understand more about planets in our Solar ...

Two millenniums before blastoff, astronomy belonged as much to the realms of art, philosophy and religion as it did to what ...

Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of NPR's Short Wave podcast talk about the evolutionary history of kissing, how moss spores fare in space, and new clues about the collision that created the moon.

Nancy Durrant and Michael Donkor join Tom Sutcliffe to review Richard Linklater’s Broadway break up film Blue Moon, starring Ethan Hawke as Lorenz Hart, whose former writing partner Richard Rodgers ...