Viewed from orbit, Jackass Flats — situated in southern Nevada about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas — could easily be confused for Mars. The alluvial basin is full of tan and gray regolith, hued ...

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Reference See what moon phase it is tonight and find out when you can see the rest of the moon phases for 2026. NASA will give an update on Tuesday afternoon (May 26) about its plans to build a moon ...

Voyager 1, launched in 1977, has traveled farther than any spacecraft in human history. After more than four decades of silent endurance through space, it now sails beyond the orbit of the outer ...

Editor's note: This article was updated March 25 at 11:40 a.m. ET to account for the recent discovery of new moons around Saturn and Jupiter. The total number of planetary moons and small-body ...

NASA has discovered a new interstellar comet that's currently located about 420 million miles away from Earth. The space agency spotted the quick-moving object with the Atlas telescope in Chile on ...

NASA scientists were stunned when a strange radio signal from the Sun refused to fade away. Instead of lasting a few hours or ...

In 1977, NASA launched the Voyager probes to study the edge of the Solar System and the interstellar medium between the stars. One by one, they each encountered the “wall of fire” at the boundary of ...