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During its recent mini-moon stint, scientists studied the 2024 PT5 from Earth. Based on the cosmic object's composition and ...

Learn more about the NASA instrument’s mission to take the first full image of Earth’s magnetic field.

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Rising just before sunset on January 13, the Full Wolf Moon will be up all night, and will slip below the western horizon ...

The Outer Space Treaty (1967) makes it clear no nation can claim to "own" the moon (or any celestial body). However, it is ...

"The temperature just wildly swings from extremely hot to extremely cold," John Monnier, a professor of astronomy at the ...

A researcher has used advanced models that indicate that the formation of Pluto and Charon may parallel that of the Earth-Moon system. Both systems include a moon that is a large fraction of the size ...

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On Jan. 13, bright Mars will disappear behind the full moon for several hours. It's the only lunar occultation of Mars ...

Pluto and its largest moon Charon could have come together via a 10-hour “kiss-and-capture” encounter after a grazing ...

The Wolf Moon, January's full moon, will reach peak illumination Monday. The previous full moon was December's Cold Moon.