DULUTH — The old Sears Diehard TV commercials always intrigued me as a kid. A snow-encased car would stand sentry on top of a ...

While Charon is currently listed as a satellite or moon by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), consideration is being given to it perhaps being classified as a dwarf planet in its own right, ...

The larger moons of Pluto and Earth likely formed through a collisional process with Charon and our moon, respectively, ...

Unlike Earth, where the Moon orbits the planet, Pluto and Charon orbit each other, forming a binary system that is more similar to the Earth-moon system than any other moon in the solar system.

NASA's beleaguered Mars Sample Return program currently faces extreme costs of up to $11 billion and a timeline that could reach 2040. The year 2025 isn't even a week old and NASA is already ...

Instead, the team's simulations show that Pluto and Charon would have stuck together for a time – much like the two lobes of distant Solar System object Arrokoth – as what ... and Charon (left). (NASA ...

For example, he has rarely criticized NASA or its overall goal to return humans to the moon through the Artemis program. Rather, Musk, who has long preferred Mars as a destination for humans ...

2025 AB is expected to pass our planet at a distance of about 95,200 miles on January 3, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Center for Near-Earth Object Studies. The moon orbits the ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has beamed home its first detailed update eight days after making a record-breaking approach to the sun, the agency announced. The spacecraft confirmed its systems and ...

On New Year's Day, NASA's Parker Solar Probe added to the festive cheer by sending home more good news about its record-breaking closest-ever approach to the sun. On Wednesday (Jan. 1), mission ...

The rocket could launch national security satellites for the U.S. military and spacecraft for NASA, including orbiters to Mars and moon landers. Another thing New Glenn will carry is satellites ...

This view of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter was generated using data collected by the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard the agency's Perseverance Mars rover on Aug. 2, 2023, the 871st Martian day, or sol, ...