A British photography student has achieved a potential first: creating photographs by exposing film to cosmic radiation ...

Mercury reaches its greatest western elongation, Iapetus passes close to Saturn, and the Moon occults the Pleiades in the sky ...

With the Space Race heating up, the Ranger program was developed as an answer to Sputnik: The U.S. would land spacecraft on the Moon. When President John F. Kennedy vowed in 1961 to put a man on the ...

On Aug. 5, a SpaceX rocket will hit the Moon near Einstein Crater, giving scientists valuable data on crater formation and ...

Mercury is rising earlier and growing brighter in the predawn sky. You may have good luck spotting it this morning in the east.

The Alpha Capricornid and the Southern Delta Aquariid meteor showers peak overnight, but the bright Moon will run ...

Astronomers caught helium escaping the habitable-zone world LHS 1140 b — a signal that strengthens the case for the planet's ...

Rising shortly after sunset, July’s Full Moon, called the Buck Moon, dominates the sky tonight with its bright light.

The Southern Delta Aquariid meteor shower peaks this morning with no moonlight to interfere with your view of shower meteors. These meteors appear to radiate from a point in the sky to the lower right ...

The solar system’s smallest planet comes to a standstill this afternoon, ending its current retrograde path and beginning to ...

Shooting stars streak overhead, but they’re fighting the July Full Buck Moon that shines brightly in the sky this week.

Just minutes after lifting off on its maiden voyage, a Long March 10B booster was recovered by a net-rigged ship at sea — a ...