Undeterred, Musk is vowing several more tests soon but the stakes are high and the clock is ticking. NASA hopes to use ...

Earth’s sister planet reaches greatest western elongation and dichotomy as the waxing Moon slides along the ecliptic in the ...

Aside from the Red Planet, the famous Beehive Cluster of stars will be visible to the lunar disk’s lower right near ... By the time the sun sets on June 1, the moon will have skipped past Mars to ...

China embarked on Thursday on its first mission to retrieve samples from a nearby asteroid, with the nighttime launch of its Tianwen-2 spacecraft, set to make the fast-growing space power the third ...

This month's night sky is filled with close-range meteors, swirling nebulas, and prime stargazing conditions. Here’s when you ...

The robotic Tianwen-2 spacecraft will collect samples from Kamoʻoalewa, which some scientists suspect is a fragment of the moon.

A crescent moon will appear alongside the bright stars Castor and Pollox to form a lopsided grin in the night sky on May 29.

It might be surprising to hear planetary scientist Nina Lanza use the word “disappointing” in the same sentence as “Mars.” After all, the Los Alamos National Laboratory researcher has dedicated her ...

Meteor showers, eclipses and full moons will appear in California skies this summer. Mark your calendars with these dates, ...

Discover interesting facts about how the moon formed, what it's made out of, and the many missions humans have launched to ...

Our satellite is a little off-balance. GRAIL data show a mass asymmetry of a few percent between its near and far sides.