What drives us to send probes throughout the solar system and rovers and landers to Mars? It's not cheap, and it's not easy.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A private lunar lander has captured the first high-definition sunset pictures from the moon.

With the Blue Ghost lunar mission coming to an end this week, the spacecraft has gifted scientists ... s surface as the sun goes down. Earth and Venus (further in the distance) are also shown ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Venus will pass between the Earth and sun on Saturday during what’s called an inferior conjunction. Webb Space Telescope captures a star in the making and a galaxy far ...

Space can be a wondrous place ... when seven planets — Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — lined up on the same side of the sun. Dury photographed this rare cosmic ...

While this weekend’s event isn’t much of a visual spectacle, scientists say it’s an opportunity to track how the planets shift in space. “Get a chance to get to know Venus,” said Nichols.