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

Hubble data reveal a 500-million-year decline in Andromeda's star formation, with the steepest drop coming in just the last ...

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 ...

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

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.

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

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

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 ...

SpaceX flies a classified NRO mission from Cape Canaveral, China launches back-to-back Long March rockets in a single day, ...