Fireballs are bright meteors and can be yellow, blue, red, green and sometimes violet. Fast-moving meteors are frequently ...

Skywatchers across parts of North America are getting front-row seats to a lunar occultation, where Luna makes one of the ...

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin announced plans to pause its New Shepard human spaceflights for at least two years to focus on ...

Only far smaller impacts have been observed directly. In 2013, a meteoroid weighing a few hundred kilograms struck the Moon, ...

There's a giant, peanut-shaped object orbiting the Sun, and it’s name is Halley’s comet. Like all comets, it’s a cosmic ...

Martian Moon Deimos Might Have Reshaped Itself and Its Orbit: Dr. Matija Ćuk, SETI Institute research scientist, and collaborators propose that Mars’s smaller moon may have undergone repeated ...

A stronomers are getting prepared for the chance to see "the most energetic lunar impact event ever recorded in human history ...

Find out what's up in your night sky during February 2026 and how to see it in this Space.com stargazing guide.

What do you call an object that has all the characteristics of a moon, but whose mass compares to that of a giant planet? The ...

The Moon is now located on the opposite side of the Earth from the Sun and its face will be fully illuminated. This phase occurs at 2:09 PM. This full moon was known by some Native American tribes as ...

Explore the challenges of international patent law in regulating innovation amid a permanent human presence in outer space.

The moon is our nearest neighbor in space, at an average distance of about 238,000 miles. As it orbits our Earth every month or so, it appears to pass by stars and planets in our night sky … or, at ...