Catch Jupiter low early in the month, then enjoy Mercury and Mars in the evenings. Saturn, Neptune, and Venus shine in the ...

A new NASA mission to map the solar wind has returned some of its first images from its position in low Earth orbit.

The object’s aphelion—the farthest point on the orbit from the sun—is more than 1,600 times that of Earth’s orbit,” Institute ...

NASA's PUNCH mission, a tiny constellation of four satellites, captured a photo of the moon drifting across the sky through a haze of sunlight. The mission is still undergoing commissioning and is ...

Venus dominates the dawn sky. She reaches greatest western elongation, 46 degrees ahead of the rising sun, on June 1, and ...

Since March, Venus has been visible in the morning sky, just east of sunrise. But the planet's greatest elongation, when it ...

Discover interesting facts about how the moon formed, what it's made out of, and the many missions humans have launched to ...

A newly discovered house-size asteroid is set to make a close, yet harmless approach to Earth on May 21, passing within ...

Earth is “positioned precisely between the moon and sun,” and its shadow “falls ... according to a National Weather Service forecast map. Portions of the Central Valley, such as Fresno ...

Some people liken this peculiar phase of the sun and moon as a "Cheshire cat smile" or ... The site's partial eclipse visibility map shows parts of Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland ...

As the name suggests, this time around the moon will only partly cover the sun, giving it a crescent shape ... NASA released a map showing where the partial solar eclipse can be seen.