Mercury now shines at magnitude –0.8 in the evening sky, lingering above the horizon some 80 minutes...
Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, June 13Mercury is making its...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 26 Starlink broadband internet satellites into low Earth orbit launched from...
When the Apollo astronauts landed on the Moon, they discovered drifts of tiny brilliant orange glass beads...
The ecliptic is the apparent path that the Sun follows during a year. It’s an imaginary line...
For most of us, dust is just something we have to clean up. For astronomers, interstellar dust...
The Hubble Deep Field revolutionised astronomy by staring at a seemingly empty patch of sky for thousands...
File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands in the launch position during sunset at Space Launch Complex...
The Space Force would receive $29 billion under the HAC-D bill The post House appropriators advance defense...
Logos Space Services has raised $50 million to advance engineering plans for more than 4,000 broadband satellites,...
Most scientists agree that supernova explosions have affected Earth’s climate, though the details are not all clear....
Astronomers have used JWST to study a fascinating planetary system that’s only 16.7 million years old, with...
NASA and Axiom Space are indefinitely delaying a private astronaut mission to the International Space Station because...
Astronomers have discovered a "teenage vampire" dead star in the process of devouring a companion star during...
An instrument built at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to map minerals on Earth is now revealing clues...
Simultaneously cooling Pluto while energizing atmospheric molecules to allow them to escape into space, Pluto's haze plays...
Astronomers have discovered a “jellyfish” galaxy whose unusual shape and internal mechanisms—including distinctive “bunny ears” and an...
The European Space Agency (ESA) said Thursday it was looking to bolster alliances with countries other than...
One of the coolest designs of any star projector we've seen, we think the Dinosaur Egg Galaxy...
NASA astronaut aboard ISS captures colorful aurora in time-lapse footage of Earth from space (video)
The time-lapse footage was captured by NASA astronaut Jonny Kim.