JAXA launches its Martian Moons eXploration mission from Tanegashima, Rocket Lab returns to New Zealand, and China lines up ...

The Southern Fish is home to the bright luminary Fomalhaut, a lovely young star that shines brightly in the evening sky.

Saturn’s small moon Tethys makes another transit across the disk along with its shadow; several other moons are observable as ...

Meteors streak past the stars as the First Quarter Moon shines and Iapetus reaches superior conjunction in the sky this week.

The Wild Duck Cluster is flying through the nighttime sky, a great object to check out during lengthening autumn evenings.

This unique pair of craters was created by just one impactor that skipped along the lunar surface, leaving a cometlike tail ...

Saturn’s moon Tethys transits the disk; you may catch it via planetary imaging. Bright Titan is near the planet, visible to ...

Two jovian moons cross each other’s paths from our point of view, appearing to merge in the telescope eyepiece.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is targeting Oct. 19 for the launch of a first-of-its-kind sample return mission to the martian moon Phobos.

Since ESA’s Herschel observatory went dark in 2013, no space telescope has been observing in the far-infrared. NASA's new ...

Integrity served as a deep-space testbed for technology that could aid cancer patients, serve remote clinics, and supercharge ...

The planet Mercury stands 25° east of the Sun. View the solar system’s smallest planet, along with the crescent Moon, in the ...