The moon dims, the meteors fly, and the planets dance—these are the most exciting celestial events happening this month.

Prior to 2040, the last planetary quintuplet occurred in the year 1186, and according to Uptain, records show that the close ...

The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis. According to this story, when the ...

Plus: A solar eclipse and an occultation of the Pleiades as our satellite skims through several constellations in the sky ...

Out past Neptune are countless small icy and rocky bodies called Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), and many of these have moons ...

As Venus approaches its inferior conjunction, astrophotographers have snapped some striking shots of the crescent planet ...

Our planet's closest and brightest neighbor will pass approximately between the Earth and sun this week, in what's called an ...

While the space race of the 1960s was a contest between two rival superpowers, today it is being fought by private space ...

"As soon as we can get it going, we would want to start having some type of presence on the moon sustainably," she told ...

By Katrina Miller The James Webb Space Telescope identified the lights ... on the International Space Station. The Red Planet and its tiny moon Deimos were recorded at a very near distance as ...

What's on and in a star? What happens in an active galactic nucleus? Answering those questions is the goal of a proposed ...

A once-in-a-lifetime experience; nowhere else in Europe can visitors touch a fragment of the Moon, snap a selfie holding a ...