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When a stream of charged particles known as the solar wind careens onto the Moon's surface at 450 kilometers per second (or nearly 1 million miles per hour), they enrich the Moon's surface in ingredients that could make water, NASA scientists have found.

TEL AVIV - Israel is aiming to become the fourth country to land a spacecraft on the moon with the scheduled launch Thursday from Cape Canaveral, Fla.

A hairdresser says his five-year-old nephew, who has cerebral palsy, inspired his specialist salon.

NASA's first 24 hour Mars weather station has detected an unexplained, low-frequency infrasound. The infrasound was detected some 72 hours ago as it swept past a suite of detectors atop the InSight Mission lander, Cornell University planetary scientist ...

According to NASA, a super moon occurs when the moon's orbit is closest to the earth and also coincides with a full moon. Tuesday's night supermoon is the closest it will get to the Earth's orbit this year - approximately 360,000km.

Following its successful venture to the far side of the Moon, China's space ambitions are moving into a higher orbit. The Chinese space agency will now be focusing to build a solar-powered space station.

Scientists are studying the behaviour of analogue astronaut crews on mock missions, complete with isolation, sleep deprivation, specially designed tasks and mission control.

This month's full supermoon, which peaked earlier Tuesday, resulted from this month's full moon coincides with the point in orbit in which the moon is closest to Earth, according to the Old Farmer's Almanac.

Scientists first became aware of a potentially warming world as far back as the 1970s, and the alarm bells really began sounding in the early 2000s, but no decisive action by the governments of the world's biggest carbon polluters, like the U.S.

NASA's Opportunity rover had a long, eventful stay on Mars, but unfortunately those days are now behind us. The rover has been officially declared dead after a dust storm last year caused its batteries to remain dry and cold, preventing it from waking ...

Dr. Wallace S. Broecker, one of the first scientists to sound the alarm about climate change and the researcher who popularized the term “global warming,” died on Monday in Manhattan.

Wallace S. Broecker, a geochemist who issued early warnings on global warming - a term he helped popularize in the 1970s - and later developed a sweeping, widely accepted model for how the oceans circulate heat and affect Earth's climate, died Feb.

The UK lags behind other wealthy nations across a number of health indicators, a report finds.

China is looking to build the first ever solar power station in space and has announced plans to send a one-megawatt solar facility into orbit by 2030.

As a Falcon 9 rocket blasts off the ground Thursday night, an Israeli spacecraft flying as a secondary payload will commence its quarter-million mile journey to the lunar surface.

Nineteen faculty from seven different University of California campuses have been named 2019 Sloan Research Fellows, a distinguished annual award that recognizes early-career scientists and scholars.

Great white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) have been in the news a lot lately. From scientific research pointing the finger at them for the demise of the famous Megalodon to great whites disappearing themselves in parts of South Africa, one just can't ...

Four young faculty members at the University of California, Davis, have been awarded prestigious Sloan Research Fellowships, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced today (Feb. 19).

(CNN) If daily weather forecasts for your part of the world weren't enough, now you can get the weather report from Mars, thanks to NASA's InSight stationary lander.

(CNN) The radio signals of almost 300,000 sources have finally reached Earth, and most of them are previously unknown galaxies from the distant universe.