The new moon of May occurs on May 26. Two days later the moon will make a close pass to Jupiter in the evening sky, and the ...

Jumping back in time, Thuban was positioned as a North Star some 4,700 years ago, as early civilizations thrived in ...

A giant impact crater on the moon may contain primordial pieces of the lunar mantle and remnants of an ancient magma ocean, researchers say. Crewmembers on upcoming Artemis missions could potentially ...

Like the Earth, the moon has a north and south pole along with eastern and western hemispheres. Those directions are fixed. When you face the moon as it rises in the eastern sky, the lunar north ...

Venus dominates the dawn sky. She reaches greatest western elongation, 46 degrees ahead of the rising sun, on June 1, and ...

While several meteor showers happen in June, most activity is not visible from Earth. Two of the more notable events are the ...

China and Russia have reportedly finalised a deal to build a nuclear power plant on the Moon by mid-2030s. Russia's space ...

The optical illusion occurs because people are used to interpreting shadows as coming from an overhead light source. But that's not necessarily the orientation of spacecraft. In many satellite photos, ...

Jupiter’s moon Callisto passes near the planet’s northern limb, shortly before Io transits and Ganymede emerges from the gas ...

While most 20th-century battles were fought on the battlefields, a new kind of warfare is expected to take over the world in a few decades.

Tokyo company ispace released a fresh photo of the moon's south pole taken by its lunar lander ... astronomers often orient satellite images so that north is up. Four months after Resilience's ...

That star, named Polaris, is the brightest in the constellation of Ursa Minor, "The Little Bear".