February brings a rare planetary parade, with five bright planets in clear view and a special alignment of Mercury and Saturn ...

Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but get a telescope and you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

On this date, Jan. 29, 1859, American astronomer William Cranch Bond died. Cranch and his son, George Phillps Bond, ...

Six of our cosmic neighbors are expected to line up across the night sky tonight, in what has been dubbed a "planetary parade ...

Saturn’s largest and brightest moon, 8th-magnitude Titan, lies a little over 2.5’ east of the planet tonight. But there’s a rarer sight on display: Saturn’s moon Iapetus, now roughly 11th ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida early Wednesday and deployed two commercial lunar landers on separate trajectories to reach the Moon in the next few ...

The researchers analysed oxygen isotopes from 14 samples from the Moon and carried out 191 measurements on minerals from Earth. Isotopes are varieties of the same element that differ only in the ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — The Wolf Moon waxed full on Jan. 13. You may have seen it - the first full moon of the New Year - hanging low on the horizon these last several evenings, tinted orangish-yellow ...

A Japanese musical adaptation of the hit manga and anime franchise “Sailor Moon” will launch a North American tour this spring, playing nearly 20 cities on a route that begins in Pittsburgh in ...

With the nearly full moon shining overhead, two companies, one American and the other headquartered in Japan, launched privately developed robotic lunar landers early Wednesday, sharing a sky ...

Scientists believe there is a far distant future where Saturn will permanently lose its rings. The rings are thought to be made up of cosmic debris from comets, asteroids or shattered moons.

Original article follows. The Moon is about to get busy. A pair of landers are riding on board a SpaceX rocket this week, aiming to touchdown on the lunar surface and unpack a host of science ...