After a comprehensive internal review, NASA announced Wednesday its intention to end development of its VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) project. NASA cited the cost increase, the delay in…
NEW ORLEANS — The main stage of the first rocket to launch astronauts to the moon in more than 50 years has left its manufacturing facilities and is slated for…
On June 27, asteroid 2011 UL21 made a relatively close encounter with Earth, flying past our planet at a distance of 6.6 million kilometers (4.1 million miles), or roughly 17…
Mysterious swirling patterns observed on the moon's surface may be linked to subterranean magma activity, a new study suggests. "lunar whirlwinds" observed on the Moon show a spiral pattern created…
WASHINGTON — As NASA moves forward with landing a crewed Artemis 3 mission on the moon in September 2026, the agency's own analysis estimates a nearly one-in-three chance the lander…
Lunar vortices are mysterious light-colored, twisting features on the moon's surface that stretch for hundreds of miles. These intriguing patterns, visible even with a backyard telescope, have defied easy explanation…
New research into ripples in the fabric of space-time suggests that a nearly 2,000-year-old cosmic calculator followed the lunar calendar instead of the solar one.The hand-operated "Antikythera Mechanism" was recovered…
The Antikythera Mechanism - an ancient shoebox-sized device used to track the movements of the sun, moon and planets - followed the Greek lunar calendar, not the solar one used…
It might seem fantastic, but as darkness approached – and with it a rare lunar event disappearing – it felt as if the beasts and birds of Stonehenge sensed something…
Top line Skygazers are in for another rare astronomical event this week called a grand lunar eclipse, a spectacle that archaeologists hope will finally shed light on historic sites like…