Charon orbits more than 19,000 km away from the planet. As seen from NASA's Pluto-bound New Horizons...

'Supermoon' is a situation when the Moon is slightly closer to Earth in its orbit than on average, a...

Australian scientists have identified 280 new craters on the Moon that have never been mapped before...

NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission has uncovered the origin of massive ...

Pluto's orbit may host a formation of 10 or more tiny undiscovered moons, which would each measure j...

First spotted in September this year, the comet, known as C/2012 S1 (ISON), is rushing towards the S...

The Ebb and Flow gravity mapping satellites have ended their successful mission to the Moon, climaxi...

As the world prepares to undertake deep space missions beyond low-Earth orbit, two veteran spacefare...

NASA is likely to announce new plans to send astronauts back to the Moon following the outcome of th...