On September 24, the crescent moon will briefly shine near Mars at sunset. The celestial event will be visible just above the western horizon.

See the crescent moon shine with Mars at sunset on Sept. 24. The crescent moon shines close to Mars above the western horizon ...

Missions to the moon and Mars pose nutritional challenges for astronauts. Now, a new paper on space-grown food poses ...

The Artemis II mission represents a major step forward for NASA and seeks to send four astronauts—Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen—around the Moon and back. The 10-day ...

The solar system's most distant planet, Neptune, is at opposition this morning at 9 A.M. EDT. Like Saturn, it is visible all night, passing highest in the hours around local midnight. The easiest way ...

This significant time difference is like a mysterious code, hiding the complex and fascinating scientific secrets behind interstellar travel, and it is also the starting point for our exploration of ...

The newly discovered asteroid is expected to tag along on the Earth's path around the sun for another 60 years.

Connect with the cosmos this fall at Stellar Vista Observatory’s star parties, lectures, and starlit dinners in Kanab. Events ...

Lunar minerals generate the rust mineral hematite when bombarded with high-energy oxygen particles, experiments show.

In a new paper, scientists argued that our best option is to blow up asteroid 2024 YR4 as part of a "kinetic disruption ...

NASA's Artemis 2 mission will launch toward to the moon in 2026. To help prepare, its four astronauts practiced observing Earth's nearest neighbor in a mockup Orion capsule.

On September 21, 2025, a spectacular partial solar eclipse unfolded over the Pacific Ocean, transforming the brilliance of the sun into a dazzling crescent. This astronomical wonder not only captured ...