Japanese spacecraft made its closest flyby of Mercury to date, buzzing the planet’s north pole and peering into shadowed ...

Extractable water near the south pole of our closest celestial neighbor promises a new spark for future space explorers.

The Red Planet comes closest to Earth, disappears behind the Moon in an occultation, and finally reaches opposition in the ...

One of the first constellations amateur astronomers come to recognize, the Queen offers observers many worthy sights.

Astronomy can often give us clues to the past that are otherwise lost to history. In one case, an Italian astronomer has ...

With 10 instruments and technology tests, Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander is part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload ...

The NASA mission broke its own record as it seeks to teach us more about our Sun, as well as reveal other secrets of the ...

The newcomer replacing Pluto presently goes by “Planet Nine.” If and when it finally shows up, it will get the honor of a ...

New models reveal Pluto and Charon may have spent some of their early history locked together in an embrace after a grazing ...

A “mini” Starmus will take place at the Kennedy Center in Washington this April, just weeks before 2025’s mainline Starmus in ...

Witness a lunar occultation of both Mars and the Pleiades; plus, Mars reaches opposition and Venus and Saturn sit close ...

The Sun, the planets, and all else that constitutes the solar system are hurtling toward the star Lambda Herculis, some 370 ...