China is allowing six nations, including the United States, to examine moon rocks on loan from the 2020 Chinese Chang'e-5 ...

A dazzling snapshot from ESO’s Paranal Observatory captures a rare sky parade — the Moon, a comet, and nearly every visible planet strung across the heavens. This celestial lineup is an optical ...

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View a brilliant morning star, enjoy dark skies during New Moon, and take in plenty of deep-sky targets in the sky this week.

SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Thursday night, on its way to deploy another 28 V2 ...

The pre-dawn sky on April 25 will see a conjunction of Venus, Saturn and a waning crescent moon, which will resemble a ...

Solar Orbiter began routine science operations in 2021 and has since looped ever closer to the Sun, stealing bits of speed ...

Hypersonic travel, defined as speeds exceeding Mach 5, has tremendous potential to reshape global mobility and logistics.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — As SpaceX launched the four-person crew of the Fram2 mission on Monday night, it was a takeoff for the history books as they will be the first humans to ever orbit Earth ...

The four novice space explorers will climb into SpaceX’s Dragon capsule named Resilience and become the first humans to do a 90-degree circularized orbit, or polar orbit. He said this will be a ...

But tonight, a rare astronomical display will take this to new levels - as an extraterrestrial emojii forms in the night sky.

Mercury and Venus retrograde, two of the many celestial events some believe can cause turmoil, ended this month.