China and Russia are cooperating in plans to build a lunar research outpost on the moon. The China National Space Administration and Roscosmos - Russia's space agency - made the announcement in a memorandum dated March 9, 2021.

When the asteroid labeled 2001 FO32 sweeps closest to Earth on March 21, 2021, it'll be moving at such a fast pace that observers using telescopes might be able to detect its motion - its drift in front of the stars - in real time. Charts and info here.

We're talking about the amount of time needed for the body of the sun to sink below the horizon. It's true. The sun actually sets faster around the time of an equinox.

A satellite image shows an enormous plume of sand and dust that blanketed northern China on March 15, 2021.

A strong tropical depression picking up moisture from the warm ocean caused widespread flooding in the Hawaiian islands.

Let the moon introduce you to the constellation Taurus the Bull on the nights of March 18, 19 and 20, 2021!

SETI's Nathalie Cabrol believes a widespread biosphere exists on Mars that has migrated underground over the past few billion years.

NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars has just sent back its first initial science results, as well as some new audio recordings of wind and the rover's laser zapping rocks.

Earlier studies have suggested the possibility that Earth was once covered with water. New evidence - focused on Earth's mantle - suggests our planet was a true water world, covered by a global ocean, billions of years ago.

New research solves a decades-long riddle: from where do the highest-energy cosmic rays originate? Even supernovae - exploding stars - can't explain them. Now it seems these sorts of cosmic rays may come from clusters of young, hot, massive stars.