This rich grouping of young suns shines brightly in Aquila the Eagle, ripe for observing just after sunset and before ...

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

Venus shines brilliantly in the evening sky, but only early-morning observers will be able to catch other solar system worlds.

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...