Observers across eastern North America and much of Europe will have front-row seats to the striking partial solar eclipse on ...

The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...

Toxic dust on Mars would make a future mission to the red planet extremely hazardous for astronauts and require significant ...

The Keeble Observatory at Randolph-Macon College holds weekly public viewing during spring semester. Check their website ( or ...

NEW YORK — Venus will pass between the Earth and sun on Saturday during what's called an inferior conjunction. But don't plan ...

Venus will pass nearly between the Earth and the Sun in an astronomical event known as an inferior conjunction. The moment ...

Skywatchers will get a rare chance to see Saturn in its full glory, without chunks of ice and rock swarming around it.

Even though Venus moves between the Earth and sun every 19.5 months, it becomes visible after sunset and before sunrise only ...

Saturn's iconic rings will seemingly "disappear" from view this weekend as they align edge-on with Earth for the first time ...

The orbit Venus takes around the sun results in an inferior conjunction as it transitions from appearing in the evening sky to the morning sky.

By comparison, Mercury, and Venus are moonless, Earth has one moon, and Mars has two. Uranus and Neptune have 28 and 16 known moons, respectively. Despite not technically being a planet anymore ...