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The Red Planet might be even better suited to hosting a human colony than previously thought.

The eclipse will be most visible at 8:16 a.m.

As long as the weather cooperates, the astronomical event will be clearest from the southern tip of South America to Africa and the Antarctic.

Leading Russian aerospace company, Energia, could be flying several tourists out to its International Space Station in four years.

NASA is set to unveil a new planetary discovery, but debate still persists about what qualifies as a planet.

The mission, scheduled for launch in the 2020s, would now enter a preliminary design phase, known as “Phase B.”

Formerly the ninth planet but demoted to dwarf status a decade ago, Pluto was discovered 87 years ago.

NASA is studying the possibility of adding a crew to an unmanned mission and moving up a scheduled moon landing.

February's Snow moon is not your average full moon event.

A lunar eclipse, snow moon and comet will all be visible in the sky Friday evening.

The comet is expected to be visible for the rest of February, but then won’t be around again until 2022.

An asteroid the size of a truck zoomed past Earth six times closer than the moon.

There are five finalists remaining for the Google Lunar X Prize, a contest for privately-owned crafts to land on the surface of the moon. They have until the end of the year to land on the lunar surface.

The company has raised more than $45 million in overall funding.

Game Freak and Nintendo are rolling out a new patch for "Pokémon Sun and Moon" to fix some glitches that are disrupting the gaming experience of players.

The moon will reach its highest point in the sky at midnight.

The authors of the study state that the moon formed when many "moonlets" — created not by a single giant impact, but due to several small impacts — coalesced into a single object.

According to researchers, solar flares can trigger a process known as dielectric breakdown in the permanently shadowed regions of the moon, melting the lunar soil almost as much as meteoroid impacts would.

The synopsis for Season 2, episode 9 of “Supergirl reveals that Kara (Melissa Benoist) and Mon-El (Chris Wood) will find themselves in Slaver’s Moon while looking for a missing woman named Izzy (Harley Quinn Smith).

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory said the comet will be visible just to the left of the moon on Saturday night.

The white paper published Tuesday revealed China's plans to explore asteroids, the Jupiter system and to send a probe to Mars and the far side of the Moon.