JF flew about 199,000 miles (320,000 km) away from Earth. It's estimated size is about 34 feet wide (10 meters), roughly the size of a bus. Orbit animation courtesy: NASA/JPL-Caltech | mash mix by ...

A speedboat trying to break a speed record in Arizona ended up airborne, spinning in the air before crashing back to the ...

The Moon means the world to us, the inhabitants of the Earth. Gazing up at the celestial body that has sparked off the poet and romanticist in many of us, it’s hard to imagine that this steadfast ...

China’s Chang’e-6 mission made headlines on June 25, 2024 for successfully collecting the first direct samples from the Moon’s farside and returning them to Earth in August. Following his notable work ...

"Discovering that the two stars are separated by just 1/60th of the Earth-Sun distance ... and our moon along with it. If we could see it, the explosion is estimated to have an apparent magnitude ...

In the new study, published April 4 in the journal Nature Astronomy, researchers revealed that WDJ181058.67+311940.94, a white dwarf binary star system located just 150 light-years from Earth, is ...

By January 2025, the asteroid’s orbit had been refined, and the possibility of an Earth impact was nearly ruled out. Still, a small chance remained that it could strike the Moon instead.

Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is the second largest moon in our solar system and is roughly 1.2 billion kilometers (745 million miles) from Earth. Scientists have long pondered whether or not life ...

Nasa/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute And the scientists think that the moon's life might make use of a common Earth process: fermentation. On Earth, fermentation is used for brewing beer or ma ...

Credit: CNSA There's less water in the mantle beneath the farside of the moon than in the mantle on the nearside, according to studies of the precious lunar samples brought back to Earth by China ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

(CNSA/Xinhua via AP, File) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Soil and rocks returned from the moon’s mysterious far side suggest it may be drier than the side constantly facing Earth, Chinese scientists ...