SpaceX’s Dragon Freedom capsule safely splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday evening, bringing astronauts Barry ...

M17, often called the Omega, the Swan, and the Checkmark Nebula, stars in a new image taken by the VISTA telescope in Chile.

How do we power missions in the outer reaches of our solar system and beyond? The solution, developed in the '60s, can last ...

Astronomy contributor and lunar expert Robert Reeves looks back on a Texas-sized achievement in Moon exploration.

The FAA has released a draft environmental assessment evaluating the impact of increasing launches from 50 to 120 per year.

Researchers worry an “extinction-level event” is coming for space science as the Trump administration looks to slash spending ...

Pictures may enliven us, but other data, such as information about magnetic fields, add a huge amount to our understanding of ...

The Pleiades, Ptolemy's Cluster, the Large Magellanic Cloud — here's how to center the sky's brightest deep-sky wonders in ...

Head out and find some bright planets in the evening this week: Mars, Jupiter, and Venus are all visible right now. Here's ...

The vernal equinox occurs as Mercury stands still in Pisces and several of Jupiter’s moons transit in the sky this week.

If venusian clouds contain life, it will be very different than what we know. But terrestrial analogs might still give us ...

A new golden age of lunar exploration is in full swing, and the Moon is no longer the province of global superpowers alone.