Astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita Williams are set to return to Earth after nearly 300 days in space, far exceeding ...

Four new astronauts arrived at the International Space Station aboard SpaceX's Crew Dragon on Sunday. Their arrival finally ...

Twelve people have landed on the moon As of 2025, only twelve people have ever set foot on the moon—all of them American ...

Chinese technology may revolutionize space flights. The recently patented on-orbit refuelling has disrupted the global ...

Not that it was a competition, but Saturn surpassed Jupiter in known moons a few years ago. Now the giant planet may never ...

SpaceX launched another batch of Starlink satellites into orbit, a little more than 12 hours after the private company teamed ...

Sonoma’s Rusty Schweickart appears in “Apollo 1,” a new documentary film about the mission, and will participate in a panel ...

In the Americas alone more than one billion people in 35 countries could bear witness to the total lunar eclipse.

The vernal equinox occurs as Mercury stands still in Pisces and several of Jupiter’s moons transit in the sky this week.

The number of known moons in our Solar System has been rising for centuries, but astronomers say it has probably peaked – for ...

The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target.

A total lunar eclipse is a relatively rare astronomical event because the moon usually passes above or below Earth’s shadow ...