The search for life beyond Earth is a key driver of modern astronomy and planetary science. The U.S. is building multiple ...

Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Saturn—offer prime visibility during dawn and dusk hours. Mercury, typically elusive, becomes visible in the northwest about an hour after sunset by mid-month, while Mars ...

Ever wonder how NASA captures stunning images from deep space probes? Interplanetary scientist John Spencer takes us behind ...

Are we actually in space?” The kindergartners of South Dakota’s Hamlin County are, in fact, in space. To be specific, they ...

Now three months past its conjunction with the sun in March, Saturn is currently well separated from the dawn glow. On June 1 ...

Why don't we have neon-green ice giants? The Earth itself is so famously blue that its blue hue, viewed from the vantage ...

Venus continues to be the brilliant “Morning Star” in the East before dawn, albeit dimming just a bit as it moves away from ...

Jupiter joins Mercury in early twilight as Mars lingers with Leo after dark. Saturn is visible in the morning, meeting ...

The icy surface of Jupiter 's moon Europa appears to be constantly changing, new data from the James Webb Space Telescope has ...

In the hunt for exoplanets, many seek out habitable worlds. There's comfort in discovering planets that remind us of ...

Tianwen, which means "questions to heaven," is the name given to China's program of robotic Solar System exploration. Tianwen ...