Ever since William Herschel discovered Uranus in 1781, astronomers have been eager to find new planets on the outer edge of ...

A meteor shower - the Leonids - will also make an appearance, though the brightness of the moon may dampen their splendor.

Get your telescopes ready! The final supermoon of 2024 occurs tonight at 4:29 PM EST! A supermoon occurs when the full moon ...

Thankfully, from our perspective on Earth, Saturn's brightest points this year aren't too far away. The best time for viewing ... Space Telescope image is, hands down, its portrait of Neptune in a ...

Children’s books usually show a moon rising at night, but the moon rises in the sky at night only half of the time. The rest ...

The Full Super Moon occults the Pleiades, the ice giant Uranus reaches opposition, and the Leonid meteor shower peaks in the ...

The Proba-3 mission consists of two spacecraft that will fly in close formation to study the sun, with the shadow of one ...

NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus decades ago shaped scientists’ understanding of the planet but also introduced unexplained oddities. A recent data dive has offered answers. In 1986, Voyager 2's flyby ...

Only two hours after being detected, an asteroid entered Earth's atmosphere and slammed into the Pacific Ocean, seemingly ...

The Roman Coronagraph Instrument, designed to block starlight, will help scientists detect faint light from exoplanets.

The SETI Institute, a scientific research center dedicated to the search for life in the universe, is pleased to offer three ...

The Roman Telescope is being built at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, where the coronagraph recently arrived after being ...