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 ...

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. July 17: The Moon skims south of Venus. Comet 10P ...

After a scrubbed countdown earlier this month, Starship Flight 13 will attempt to deploy 20 Starlink V3 satellites, relight a ...

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

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