Kennedy Space Center is battening down the hatches as Hurricane Milton gathers strength over the Gulf of Mexico.

Currently visible just before dawn, the comet of the year will soon be visible after sunset and remain trackable through the ...

Explore the best gifts for space enthusiasts and backyard observers in our 2024 Holiday Gift Guide. The holiday season is the ...

Saturn’s rings are no more than a few hundred million years old and will only exist as they are today for another few hundred ...

American astronomer Beverly Turner Lynds died peacefully Oct. 5, 2024 at a hospice in Portland, Oregon, after suffering a ...

NASA plans to send crewed missions to Mars over the next decade, but the journey to the red planet could take several months ...

Europe’s first planetary defense mission — a follow-up to NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test — will launch as early as ...

Untangling the Sun’s messy and mysterious patterns may be a computer’s job someday, but the technology isn't quite there yet.

A recent solar flare has prompted a geomagnetic storm watch and could produce aurorae this weekend. Here's how to see them if ...

This faint southern constellation contains a smattering of galaxies — and one standout globular cluster — to explore.

The terminator sweeps across the Moon, Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS continues to wow, and Jupiter reaches a stationary point in ...