But Earth's satellite does indeed have a blanket of gasses; thin and tenuous, but persistent enough to be considered a kind of atmosphere called an exosphere. Exactly how the Moon sustains that ...

In relation to Earth, the Moon is much larger than would be expected and this is thought to be due to how the Moon formed. There is almost no atmosphere on the Moon, which means it cannot trap heat or ...

NASA's sending an octocopter-lander to Saturn's cloud-covered moon, Titan, with SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket with a launch ...

Neal Stephenson’s 2015 sci-fi novel “Seveneves” begins with, “The moon blew up with no warning and no apparent reason.” It turns out that scientists think his ideas of what might happen ...

A waning crescent moon will creep closer and closer to Spica until the star's light is extinguished in the blink of an eye on ...

The Cold Moon, December's full moon, will reach peak illumination on Sunday, Dec. 15. This follows November's full moon, the ...

NASA has chosen SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket for the Dragonfly mission to Saturn's moon, Titan. Scheduled for 2028, this ...

Astrobotic, which had been hoping to land the first American-made spacecraft on the Moon in 50 years, added that its spacecraft would likely burn up in the atmosphere in the next few days.