The new moon of January will be at 7:36 a.m. Eastern Time on Jan. 29, according to the U.S. Naval Observatory, and two days ...

An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.

A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely called a "mini-moon," a nickname that was more ...

While Resilience and Blue Ghost are in orbit and preparing to leave for the moon, another lunar lander — Intuitive Machines ' IM-2, or Athena — recently arrived at Cape Canaveral to loaded atop of a ...

Alignments of five or more planets are rare—there will be two more featuring five or more planets this year, but after that ...

This month offers incredible views of six planets, including Venus-Saturn conjunction. See the dates for all of 2025's ...

Although it's being mistakenly promoted as a "rare planetary alignment," one of the best "planet parades" in half a century ...

Six planets will form a rare planetary alignment in the night sky on Jan. 21; here is everything you need to know about the ...

For the past week, an uncrewed lunar lander has been journeying through outer space on a 60-day mission to the moon on behalf ...

From late January to early February, a rare planetary viewing will occur early in the crisp winter night sky, early in the evening. The Moon will enter its New Moon Phase, and six planets will be ...

The planets in our solar system orbit the sun in more or less the same flat plane as the Earth, according to EarthSky.org, called the ecliptic. The celestial bodies near us, the sun and the moon ...