Open star clusters sparkle as Luna and Venus line up and Jupiter’s moons jockey for position in the sky this week.

The Moon also offers a handy site for an offworld seed repository of Earth’s plant life, much like the Svalbard Global Seed ...

For decades, astronomers have puzzled over how the supermassive black holes residing in the center of galaxies form. Now, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) shows off its infrared capabilities once again in new imaging of the well-known ...

The crew currently aboard the ISS will enjoy a festive meal, delivered by the recent SpaceX CRS-31 resupply mission.

Within the next decade, the agency believes its commercial partners can develop vehicles to land a lunar rover and habitat on ...

China’s historic farside sample-return mission is providing intriguing insights into why the Moon’s farside is so different ...

New models using Voyager 2 data show that separate layers in the planets’ mantles could be creating disordered magnetic ...

What does dark energy have to do with proliferation of life in the universe? The answer is written in the stars, according to ...

At the Moon’s average distance, it would take about four hours to see the effect of motion there through 10x binoculars.

Earth’s orbit around the Sun is not circular, but an ellipse. The perimeter of Earth’s orbit is roughly 584 million miles ...

Out of the limelight, theoretical physicists continue to seek a mathematical model that can explain the universe's particles ...