A rare 'smiley face' triple conjunction is coming to Earth's morning skies on April 25, when Venus, Saturn and the crescent ...

An asteroid known as 2024 YR4 won't be crashing into Earth, but the James Webb Space Telescope went to get a look at it anyway. Here's what it found.

The morning of April 24 will give rise to a striking mini-planetary parade, as Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Neptune, and Earth's ...

A rare celestial event is on the horizon, as three planets will align in the night sky, creating the illusion of a "smiley ...

Spacesuit parts are being tested in a cryogenic ice chamber to see how well they would fare in the lunar south pole.

Herschel, a well-known British astronomer, was able "by means of a telescope of vast dimensions and an entirely new principle," the paper reported, to view objects on the Moon as though they were ...

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

Venus and Saturn will align with a crescent moon to create the illusion of a smiley face in the sky on the morning of April ...

The Moon's surface is covered by impact craters, ranging from microscopic pits to massive basins over 1,000 kilometers across ...

The new moon occurs April 27, and a day later Venus and Saturn will make a close approach to each other (known as a ...

"Because there is no air," I replied. "Which means no dust, so that distant objects on the moon still appear crisp." "But they're perfectly focused." "The published ones are perfectly focused ...