Scientists could soon get a precise age for the giant impact basins on the moon, and a better understanding of the impact history of the young Earth, thanks to a new geological map of the moon's ...

Wednesday night’s online chatter among some High Desert residents included the question, “What’s up with the ring around the moon?” Some speculated that the ring was possibly a “portal ...

Based on conventional thinking, all the material that makes up Quaoar’s dense ring should have condensed and formed a small moon. But it didn ... detailed map of the stars.

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Have you ever seen a halo-effect or ring around the moon? Known as a moon ring, a winter halo, or a 22-degree halo, it's when "ice crystals suspended high above in thin ...

Until this week Saturn's small moon Rhea was the only known solid space object thought to have a ring. (Other known ringed bodies, such as Saturn, are mainly gaseous.) But a new study of optical ...