The biggest astronomical events of 2026, including solar and lunar eclipses, planet parades and the Artemis II mission to the ...

The New Year begins with the nearly full Moon at perigee in the early afternoon. Two days later –– at full Moon –– Earth is at perihelion, its closest point to the Sun.

As a rocket revolution sets the stage for astronauts to explore Mars, advances in bioengineering could help them survive the ...

The nebula is easy to spot in the night sky, where it’s most visible in the Northern Hemisphere from roughly November to ...

The month brings a strong lineup of celestial sights, including a supermoon, meteor activity, and several close moon-planet ...

The creator of the futuristic Orion capsule, the only spacecraft capable of speeding aeronauts to the Moon, is set to begin ...

The moon and sun share top billing in 2026. Kicking off the year's cosmic wonders is the moon, drawing the first astronauts ...

In 2026, there will be journeys to the moon and Mars, new visions of the cosmos and a solar eclipse that might be worth ...

Saturn and Neptune will be in the same binocular view for the entire month. Neptune lies 3.5 degrees northeast of Saturn on ...

The discovery is the first direct observational confirmation of a theory for how young stars feed on, and then explosively ...

The upcoming year will offer a blood-red moon, spectacular meteor showers and the first glimpse of the sun’s corona since ...

Fourth anniversaries aren’t often causes for celebration. But in the case of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which ...