7 bizarre objects from the festival's worth of trash left on the moon

The Apollo 11 lunar lander and other moon missions left behind some weird stuff, including cannons,…

Future moon missions probably won't carry astronauts – here's why

Unlike the Apollo missions, the new era of moon exploration might be about mining, tourism or…

Moon rocks can tell us where life could thrive beyond the solar system

Moon rocks collected by the Apollo missions contain a pristine record of Earth’s history. Reading it…

Apollo 11 only made it to the moon through diabolically hard practice

Before anyone had been to space, NASA simulated everything that could go possibly wrong – efforts…

Jodrell Bank Observatory honoured with UNESCO World Heritage status

Jodrell Bank Observatory, a world-leading centre for radio astronomy in the UK, has been added to…

Asteroid 2019 NN3 to flyby Earth at 0.83 lunar distances on July 10 – the largest since the start of the year

A newly discovered asteroid designated 2019 NN3 will flyby Earth at a distance of 0.83 LD…

Museum starts 'live' restoration of Rembrandt masterpiece

Amsterdam’s famed Rijksmuseum on Monday began a historic restoration of Rembrandt’s “The Night Watch”, erecting a…

Robots, Not Humans, Are The New Space Explorers

Landing a man on the moon captures the public’s imagination. But in the decades after the…

X-ray serendipity

The purple lines and blotches scattered across this image show something incredible: all of the X-ray sources…

Asteroid 2019 MB4 to flyby Earth at 0.82 lunar distances on July 9

A newly discovered asteroid designated 2019 MB4 will flyby Earth at 0.82 LD / 0.00211 AU…