NASA is fast-tracking plans to deploy a nuclear reactor on the lunar surface by 2030 as a strategic imperative to prevent ...

Neil Alden Armstrong was born on Aug. 5, 1930, in Ohio. A naval pilot from 1949 to 1952, Armstrong flew 78 missions in Korea.

If you head out before sunrise (say, about 5 a.m. local time) and look eastward during the next few days, you’ll see ...

Asteroid Vesta stands in line with two of Libra’s stars this evening, making the trio an easy-to-spot target in binoculars or any telescope.

USSF-106 mission launches a navigation satellite for the U.S. Space Force, flanked by six other commercial and international ...

Science pulls the famed 2011 'arsenic life' study on GFAJ-1, reigniting debate over scientific standards and editorial ...

The first of two Titan shadow transits this month occurs this morning — can you catch the big, black shadow crossing Saturn’s ...

August brings Saturn and Neptune together, offers two shadow transits of Titan, and sees a conjunction of Venus and Jupiter.

There's so much more to Andromeda than its eponymous galaxy. Here's a list of other targets to observe in the Princess.

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out on the morning of August 13 to see the bright planets Venus and Jupiter close together low in the eastern sky. This ...

Neptune and Saturn appear together in a telescope as Mars passes a star in Virgo and Titan’s shadow transits Saturn in the ...

A brightening Moon limits deep-sky options, but this cluster never fails to disappoint: M13, the great globular in Hercules the Strongman.