July is an excellent month for astrophotographers. The clear summer skies and warm nights help, but what will excite night sky-watchers are its three meteor showers, striking lunar conjunctions and ...

Meanwhile, Venus and Saturn — both beaming in the morning sky — welcome Jupiter into the fold. The gas giant makes its first appearance at mid-month in Gemini, low in the northeast about an hour ...

Felton Davis offered thousands of strangers a close-up view of the Moon and planets orbiting New York City. Now he’s passing ...

The ICA Miami shows how her proclivity for abstraction grew in tandem with her interests in space, science, and spirituality.

Nearly 400 years ago, Galileo looked at the Pleiades star cluster through his telescope and noticed that the seven or so ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — Nearly 1,000 employees have accepted resignation offers, according to NASA late Thursday afternoon, according to the U.S. space agency. “About 5% of NASA’s workforce ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — Citing the proposed budget cuts by the Trump administration, NASA announced on Friday that after the Artemis III mission — where Americans will return to the moon ...

Mars appears low in the western sky for an hour or two after sunset throughout July. Spotting it will be easier with ...

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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. On June 27, 1997, NASA's NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft flew by an asteroid named 253 Mathilde ...

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