The trio are peeking through a window to view the Orion spacecraft that will fly them around the moon next year ... resemblance to a sombrero hat, with its wide rim and bulging center.

Research and development is underway to create robots that can hunt for signs of life in the vast oceans that exist under the ...

Europa was one of four moons discovered on Jan. 7, 1610, by astronomer Galileo Galilei. Speaking of Galileo, this photo was ...

Pluto and its largest moon Charon could have come together via a 10-hour “kiss-and-capture” encounter after a grazing ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft made a close flyby of Jupiter moon lo. See an animation of the images the probe captured created by Koji Kuramura and Gerald Eichstädt. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS | ...

Directly above our heads, Jupiter will be signing bright. To the east, Mars will reach opposition in mid-January.

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New results from China’s Chang’e 5 mission suggest that the Moon possessed a magnetic field well into its midlife, much longer than previously documented. In work published Jan. 1 in Science ...

Staying true to its ... new moon as it is the time when the sky is the darkest. In 2025, the new moons during summer fall on July 10, Aug. 9 and Sept. 7. The planets Venus, bottom, and Jupiter ...

The Moon’s illumination is given at 12 P.M. local time from the same location. Tuesday, January 7 The Moon reaches perigee, the closest point to Earth in its orbit, at 7:01 P.M. EST this evening.