Simply look to the western sky after sunset. The delicate form of the crescent moon is set to draw close to the planet ...

The breakthrough comes from researchers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, who set out to replicate the harsh lunar ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...

In a fascinating intersection of space exploration and Earth science, NASA’s Apollo astronauts once trained on the alien-like lava fields of Idaho’s Craters of the Moon, preparing to explore the ...

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the publication of the first Moomin tale, The Moomins and the Great Flood.

Recent flybys of the fiery world refute a leading theory of its inner structure — and reveal how little is understood about ...

The "Blue Marble" was the first photo of the whole Earth and the only ever taken by a human. Fifty years on, new images of ...

Apparently, it’s moving further away from the Earth each year. At an annual rate of 3.82 centimeters, the moon's creeping ...

Cork native Rhiannon Adam should have been the first woman to fly to the moon but said she would have snubbed the chance to ...

UK’s Zed Nelson won the Photographer of the Year title while German snapper Toby Binder won an award for his Divided Youth of Belfast series ...

Despite decades of searching for this signal, astronomers have yet to find it. The problem is that our Earth is too noisy, ...

Living near Kororoit Creek in Sunshine West has provided artist Vonne Beyer with plenty of inspiration across the past nine ...