A NASA spacecraft bound for an unusual metallic asteroid recently made a strategic flyby of Mars — and its cameras captured a rare perspective of the red planet along the way. The Psyche mission, ...

As July begins, three planets adorn the early evening sky. Look toward the northwest and you'll see Venus. The planet shines ...

Venus and Jupiter remain visible in the evening sky soon after sunset early in July, although Jupiter fairly quickly drops ...

Distance from Earth (logarithmic scale) - Moon 1 mi 10 mi 100 mi 1,000 mi 10,000 mi 100,000 mi Moon 1M mi 10M mi 100M mi 1B ...

Our April moongaze was rained out, so we rescheduled for May. People all over the world were filled with excitement as NASA sent astronauts back to explore the moon for the first time since ...

Long before the full moon rises, shifting sunlight transforms the lunar surface into one of the sky's best telescope targets.

A sharp-eyed satellite captured an amazing photo of SpaceX's first Starship V3 megarocket on the pad Thursday (May 21), just ...

The Psyche mission, on its way to study an asteroid of the same name, approached within 2,864 miles of the red planet on May ...

STARBASE, Texas — During a presentation, SpaceX CEO and founder Elon Musk shared how he plans to use Starship to reach the planet Mars, and how in a few short years, there is a chance humans could ...