A new dataset from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory maps one million cis-lunar orbits, highlighting orbital stability challenges, space domain awareness needs, and planning requirements for Moon ...

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One of the oldest unsolved riddles in planetary science concerns the origin of the moon. Over a century ago, George Darwin proposed that tidal and centrifugal forces on a rapidly rotating proto-Earth ...

January's full Wolf Moon, which is also a supermoon, will rise in the Gemini constellation, appearing bigger and brighter ...

Google’s proposal to explore space-based AI infrastructure raises fundamental questions about energy, physics and feasibility ...

Doing the persnickety calculations of how fast clocks tick on Mars relative to Earth, two scientists have discovered that ...

A bevy of supermoons, a dramatic total solar eclipse and a "blood moon" total lunar eclipse are some of the highlights of the ...

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NASA's PUNCH mission is photographing the Sun like never before. It can see comets that are invisible to every other ...

Satellites in orbit would begin to collide in a matter of days if they lost manoeuvrability during a solar storm or other ...

New research suggests that for about a billion years, Earth’s rotation stayed stable at 19-hour days due to a balance between ...