Plus: The August Full Sturgeon Moon shines, the colorful double star Albireo sparkles, and Mercury reappears in the sky this ...

Proba-3 creates artificial solar eclipse to study Sun's corona. Two ESA satellites fly in precise formation to reveal the sun ...

Mountain ranges, volcanic plains, and lots of craters make the Moon a target you’ll return to again and again.

Albireo at the head of Cygnus the Swan is a lovely double star with contrasting colors — a summertime favorite.

Early this morning, the raised, flat lava plain of Wargentin is stands out near the large crater Schickard in the lunar ...

8. Speaking of sunlight, it’s composed of approximately 40 percent light, 50 percent heat, and 10 percent ultraviolet ...

August brings Saturn and Neptune together, offers two shadow transits of Titan, and sees a conjunction of Venus and Jupiter.

NASA is fast-tracking plans to deploy a nuclear reactor on the lunar surface by 2030 as a strategic imperative to prevent ...

Starlink interference is swamping protected frequencies, threatening astronomers' ability to unlock secrets of the early universe.

Neil Alden Armstrong was born on Aug. 5, 1930, in Ohio. A naval pilot from 1949 to 1952, Armstrong flew 78 missions in Korea.

Science pulls the famed 2011 'arsenic life' study on GFAJ-1, reigniting debate over scientific standards and editorial ...

Signs of life on K2-18 b are revisited as a new NASA-led study finds no conclusive evidence for dimethyl sulfide, tempering ...