Space Perspective's 'Spaceship Neptune' balloon flew to the edge of space on its first unmanned test flight. It lifted off ...

We're celebrating Space.com's 25th birthday this week, and instead of pinning a tail on a donkey, we're staying on brand by pinning our telescopes to a bunch of cosmic marvels. If you'd like to follow ...

November's Beaver Moon will appear in the sky next to the gorgeous Pleiades star cluster, also known as the "Seven Sisters." ...

You can catch a view of the “most elusive planet” late this week and likely through the weekend. “Because Mercury is so small ...

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 ...

Well after Halloween has come and gone, autumn sets a spooky, mystical tone, thanks to the sun’s trip through Scorpio, the ...

November's spectacle closes out a series of four big and bright full moons that have captivated sky watchers since late ...

Thursday's night sky will feature a finale of this year's celestial calendar: its last supermoon. The supermoon will not be alone, as it will be rising after the peak of the Taurid meteor shower.

Aug. 31, 2023 — A Neptune-sized planet denser than steel has been discovered by an international team of astronomers, who believe its composition could be the result of a giant planetary ...

The sun and the planets around it form part of the Milky Way Galaxy. "The Milky Way is a large barred spiral galaxy. All the ...

We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

November's full moon, also known as the Beaver Moon, is the last of four consecutive supermoons occurring in 2024.