Light plays an important role in regulating our sleep/wake cycle, and our bodies are ultra-sensitive to it. As a result, the ...

The results of Hera's fly-by could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant ...

Astronomers have discovered a panoply of new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far ...

"The successful SCALPSS operation is a key step in gathering fundamental knowledge about landing and operating on the moon, ...

Well, the verdict is in. The Moon is not made of green cheese after all.

A groundbreaking study reveals that the Moon has a solid inner core with a density comparable to iron, reshaping our ...

The short answer is that you would weigh roughly one-sixth your Earth weight on the Moon. So if your bathroom ... equation for figuring out the force of gravity almost 350 years ago.

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

The first direct visual evidence of the supermassive black hole in the centre of Messier 87 and its shadow. Event Horizon ...

The number of known moons in our Solar System has been rising for centuries, but astronomers say it has probably peaked – for ...

A huge haul of 128 newfound satellites might be a hint of past collisions in the planet’s orbit, or something else.