Learn about the scientific efforts to map the lunar landing site and uncover its connection to the emergence of life on Earth ...

We have the full Snow Moon to look forward to in the week ahead. And thanks to fortuitous timing it will look equally "full" to the unaided eye two nights in a row, on Feb. 11 and 12. That's because ...

So long as the weather cooperates, Saturn, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and the moon will be visible Sunday evening during an open house at the Indiana University Kokomo Observatory. The open house begins at ...

The moon is still shrinking and stretching, scientists claim, after discovering a series of ridges on the lunar surface that ...

From planets and constellations, to eclipses and the Aurora Borealis, here's what to look for in the sky this spring ...

The article humorously imagines how planets would describe themselves if they were dating profiles. Each planet has a unique ...

Venus, Jupiter, and Mars dominate the sky. Catch your last views of Saturn as early in the month, the Moon passes in front of ...

U.S. figure skater Spencer Lane, 16, shared a photo from inside American Eagle Flight 5342 before it took off from Wichita, ...

Jupiter became a gas giant, for example, while Venus ended up with a rocky, scorched landscape. But some of the primordial rubble continued to orbit the sun, becoming today’s asteroids. For decades, ...

Mastcam is looking back at the Rustic Canyon crater to get a new angle. Craters are three-dimensional and looking at it from all sides will help decipher the nature of this small crater, and also make ...

From January to March, the night sky will host a spectacular parade of planets featuring Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. The alignment peaks on January 25 and Mercury joins the ...

Over the weekend Curiosity completed a 38-meter drive (about 125 feet), and the rover is now perched on the rim of a crater named “Rustic Canyon.” Today we planned contact science to search for any ...