For the first time in history, scientists have analyzed actual samples from the lunar farside—thanks to China’s Chang’e-6 ...

Some of Saturn’s other moons were discovered by space voyages, and some during what are called “ring-plane crossings”. When the Voyager 1 spacecraft passed by Saturn, it took images that ...

There are often surprises when looking up into the night sky. This time, a rare sighting—an Einstein ring—was captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The glowing, eye-like circle in ...

"The picture features a rare cosmic phenomenon — an Einstein ring. What appears to be a single, strangely shaped galaxy is actually two galaxies far apart," the European Space Agency explained ...

In a few locations along the eclipse’s path, viewers will get a rare glimpse of a phenomenon known as a “double sunrise.” This happens when the moon blocks part of the sun as it comes up ...

The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved the first medicine to treat people with Prader-Willi syndrome, a rare genetic disease that causes an insatiable desire to eat. The drug ...

During the next ring plane crossing, astronomers will be able to better a good look at Saturn's many moons. As far as planets go, they don't get much more iconic than Saturn: a huge golden ball ...

This rare event, called a "ring plane crossing," started showing on Sunday ... The origin theories range from the remnants of a destroyed moon or comet torn apart by Saturn's gravity to material ...

The prospect of setting up mining operations in space holds the potential for enticing rewards of rare metals that can’t be easily found ... Corporation plans to send its SCAR-E robot to the moon in a ...

Brits will be able to see nearly half the Sun 'disappear' in the sky this week during a rare partial solar eclipse. As the Moon passes over the Sun in the sky this weekend, the celestial bodies ...

A full moon was out in the middle of the day in Dunedin, Fla. when a Blue Jays fan decided to drop their pants partially down in the stands during a spring training game between the Blue Jays and ...