Look to the southwest sky after sunset on Saturday, as the sliver of a waxing crescent moon nears bright Venus with Saturn ...

With each passing night as, the crescent slowly widens and it begins to appear against a progressively darker background, its ...

Californians watching the sky in February have the chance to view a parade of planets and a snow moon. The planetary alignment that began in January will continue into February, according to ...

The new moon of January will be at 7:36 a.m. Eastern Time on Jan. 29, according to the U.S. Naval Observatory, and two days ...

This is the last chance to catch the pair in conjunction this year—with Venus set to be unusually bright in the night sky.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission discovered molecules vital to life and a history of saltwater on asteroid Bennu. The findings ...

People in the northern hemisphere will be able to see Saturn, Mercury, Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter and Mars during the planetary parade. The next full moon will happen on Feb. 12. Known as the ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

If the scientists could very precisely measure the proportions of lutetium and halfnium in moon rocks compared to other ...

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...

As we discussed last month, late January and early February will provide a stage for a Planet Parade, with six planets lining up in the night sky. On February 1, we should see the crescent moon in ...