Considering that Saturn is already 4.5 billion years old, if the rings are as old as Saturn, after all this time, those ...

Every 378 days, Saturn swings into opposition, bringing it closer, brighter, and nearly 10 times easier to observe than at ...

On December 21, 2015, after the Dragon Spacecraft was launched into orbit, the SpaceX company celebrated victory. The main ...

The Soviet Union’s successful Zond-5 space mission in 1968 prompted NASA to speed up the Apollo program—ultimately driving it to its successful conclusion the following year.

In March 1968, the Soviet Union had a partial success with Zond 4. With this launch, they were able to take the spacecraft out to lunar distances (though not around the Moon) even if navigation system ...

Astronomer, St. Lawrence University and the Adirondack Sky Center, offers a roadmap for what's on view in the morning and evening skies.

@Starlit Astronomy: The many mysteries of Venus may be related to a massive celestial impact event. In the early solar system ...