As more of the solar system has been explored and imaged, all kinds of geographical features have been mapped on many of our ...

The Weather Channel reports that the Earth’s moon is moving further away from our planet, albeit at an extremely slow pace.

Kosmos-482, a spacecraft bound for Venus in 1972, was a time capsule from the Cold War when superpowers had broad ambitions for exploring the solar system.

To understand how chaotic the early solar system was, we need only gaze at the moon. Its cratered surface bears the scars of ...

At the time, the Earth would have been far closer to the moon than it is today, making it perhaps twice as large in the lunar ...

In 2005, thanks to Michael Brown’s scientific antics, Pluto was removed from the list of planets in the solar system. In 1968, the Apollo 8 mission flew around the moon. In 2001, Chris Hadfield became ...

For months, President Trump has taunted Canada by claiming it should become America's 51st state. But the country's new prime ...

They’ve concluded that the Earth was built in the same way that you would build a big snowball to make a snowman. The mass that would become our home rolled through planetary debris – rocks floating ...

Earth has four seasons, but do other planets in our solar system also have hot summer days and cold winter nights?

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory director Laurie Leshin discussed various outer space endeavors in an earth and planetary ...

A moon that resembles an iconic, fictional space station known to destroy planets may be a home for life beyond Earth.

Photographer Riste Spiroski snapped a striking view of the moon and Jupiter hanging over the ancient lake Ohrid in northern ...