The full moon takes place a mere three days before the Perseids meteor shower peaks, and 11 days before the next planet ...

Look east around 4 a.m. local time, just before dawn, to see the slender form of the crescent moon climb above the horizon.

A rare and visually captivating celestial event is set to unfold this August, as the full Sturgeon Moon coincides with an ...

Catch the solar system’s largest planet satellite sharing the constellation Gemini the Twins with our Moon this morning ...

Two new moons have been discovered orbiting Jupiter, bringing the total number of natural satellites orbiting the gas giant ...

And hovering about 5.5 degrees above it will be brilliant Jupiter (your clenched fist held at arm's length measures 10 degrees; so, the moon and Jupiter will appear roughly half a fist apart).

Visible on the planet itself is a dark patch near the top, marking the frigid northern polar cap, where temperatures dip to ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are painting a new picture of Jupiter's moon Europa and revealing ...

That mission, which is slated to end in September 2025, also extends to Jupiter's rings and many moons. Juno’s trajectory passes by Io every other orbit, flying over the same part of the moon ...

The mission is scheduled to end in 2034 with Europa Clipper crash-landing on another of Jupiter's moons, Ganymede. The launch will be streamed live online and on NASA TV.

On this date, Jan. 7, 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei, with a homemade telescope, noticed three points of light near Jupiter. Initially believing they were distant stars, Galileo’s repeated ...