NASA's 2nd wet dress rehearsal is underway in Florida as the agency prepares to test-fuel the towering Space Launch System rocket for Artemis 2.

In late winter, the zodiacal light is visible in the evening in the Northern Hemisphere (false dusk) and in the pre-dawn morning in the Southern Hemisphere (false dawn). In early autumn, the timing ...

In a recent interview, NASA’s Acting Planetary Defense Officer Dr Kelly Fast told The Times that space agencies have no current way to stop an asteroid should it pose an imminent threat to Earth. Her ...

A NASA planetary defense officer warns thousands of near-Earth asteroids capable of destroying a city remain undetected.

In a way, that’s exactly what she studies. A heliophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, MacDonald, working remotely in Walla Walla, has spent her career chasing the mysteries behind the ...

Satellites have captured incredible views of the Feb. 17 annular solar eclipse as the moon's shadow swept across a remote ...

The six-planet parade will feature Mercury, Venus, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Jupiter. Mercury, Venus, Saturn and Jupiter ...

Aurorasaurus has grown into a vibrant community of observers who help scientists track everything from sudden storms to rare colors. Some of the project’s most remarkable discoveries began with ...

The best minimal-light, unobstructed vantage points in New York City include the Hudson River Waterfront, the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, a high-floor rooftop and the Rockaways, according to Secret ...

"We would not have any way to go and actively deflect one right now," warns the scientist who led NASA's DART mission.

All the “normal” matter, like the stars, gas, dust, and people, is called baryonic matter, and it’s basically the tiny visible fraction of a universe that’s mostly invisible and still not fully ...

The best “planet parade” of the year puts Venus, Jupiter, and more on display right after sunset—and you can see most of them with the naked eye.