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

The giant planet hasn’t been this bright in a decade, and it reaches opposition December 7. Now is the time to get out and ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station may be far from family and friends this Thanksgiving, but will still enjoy a festive meal. The SpaceX CRS-31 supply mission that docked Nov. 5 ...