This year, my third China Space Day event was spent in Shanghai, after Wuhan last year and Hefei the year before. It was held ...

Did you know that Canadian feet were actually the first to touch down on the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission?

At the time, the Earth would have been far closer to the moon than it is today, making it perhaps twice as large in the lunar ...

Using cutting-edge theoretical models and data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, scientists have transformed ...

A whole population of 'minimoons' - tiny natural satellites - may be quietly circling near Earth, scientists now believe, after discovering a second Moon-origin rock drifting close to our planet.

Since the moon will be out in the evening sky the next two weeks, let's explore another of its curious behaviors. Have you ever noticed that it "rolls" from one side to the other during the night?

Earlier this month, planetary scientist Timothy Glotch of Stony Brook University was selected by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) to receive a rare set of specimens collected by ...

It’s called lunar regolith, dirt from the moon. "Lunar regolith is basically moon rocks or lunar rocks, so it doesn’t have any nutrients in it or organic material in it," said Shelley.

Israeli military bulldozers demolished most of a Palestinian village in the West Bank, taking out infrastructure reducing ...

Eileen Massett, 93, recalled being evacuated from east London to Wisbech, Norfolk, as a child. Ms Massett was speaking during a VE Day street party in one of Britain's most bombed neighbourhoods. The ...