As of Tuesday, Aug. 12, the moon phase is Waning Gibbous, and it is 88% lit up to us on Earth, according to NASA's Daily Moon Observation. There's a lot to see on the moon tonight, and it's also the ...

The Perseid meteor shower is one of the brightest and fastest meteor showers of the year. The shower lights up the skies each summer and is known for its fast-moving meteors - oft ...

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

The Perseids meteor shower peaks August 12–13, with the best viewing between midnight and 3 a.m. An 84% full Moon will reduce ...

(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 ...

Here’s a look at what’s going on above us right now and later in the month. The expression “dog days” refers to the period ...

Aerospace company L3Harris announced it delivered three Advanced Electric Propulsion System (AEPS) thrusters to the American ...

Space mining company Interlune will fly a multispectral camera on Astrolab Griffin Mission 1 to determine how much helijm-3 ...

In a dugout where each nearby blast sends dirt raining from the ceiling and the black plastic lining the walls slipping down, ...

The first space race was about flags and footprints. Now, the new race is to build there, and doing so hinges on power.

This annual meteor shower begins in late July and continues through much of August, reaching its peak around mid-August. This ...

Tom Hanks is remembering late astronaut Jim Lovell, whom he portrayed in the Oscar-winning film “Apollo 13,” as among the ...