The best time to watch a meteor shower is in the early predawn hours when the moon is low in the sky. Competing sources of ...

The peak of the Perseid Meteor Shower is almost here. The summer’s biggest “shooting star” show is known for having plentiful ...

This week, skygazers have two celestial events to be excited about, with a Jupiter-Venus planetary conjunction and the Perseid meteor shower peak.

Orbital refueling could unlock long-distance space travel, but microgravity and cryogenics make it one of aerospace's ...

The 1995 movie ‘Apollo 13’ told the story behind the failed NASA mission. Get to know the space explorers who Tom Hanks, Bill ...

The Perseids are one of the most anticipated meteor showers of the year, known for their fast-moving fireballs.

The western half of the Western Hemisphere is expected to “see” the Black Moon starting before 12 a.m. on Aug. 22, according ...

Despite journeys around the moon and becoming one of the nation’s most-acclaimed astronauts, he was just a regular guy.

A waning gibbous moon will impact viewing the shooting stars, but the famous meteor shower is still worth observing ...

In a Chicago History Museum image, astronauts John Swigert, left, and James Lovell, wave to a crowd that gathered downtown ...

An ankle sprain on Mars? An earache on the Moon? NASA and Google are building a proof-of-concept AI medical assistant ...

(CNN) — Famed NASA astronaut Jim Lovell, who commanded the harrowing Apollo 13 mission that was forced to abandon a lunar landing attempt in 1970, has died. He was 97. Lovell died on August 7 in Lake ...