On Jan. 4, Saturn briefly hid behind the crescent moon, escaping the view of skywatchers in Europe, Africa, western Russia ...

Twenty years ago, the Huygens probe achieved humanity's first landing on a moon in the outer solar system when it touched ...

The moon performed a cosmic ballet with Mars this week.

Astronaut Don Pettit has taken one of the most incredible astrophotography pictures ever, and possibly the best taken by ...

A stunning new photo captures the moon and Saturn ... t be visible from Earth until 2031. Editor's note: If you snap a great photo of the night sky you'd like to share with Space.com and our ...

"The research we gather will help unlock future space exploration ... monitor background X-ray emissions, test whether Earth-orbiting navigation satellites can be used near the moon and the ...

The ride today bears little resemblance to actual spaceflight. But in the 50 years Space Mountain has been running, there ...

Years before astronauts are set to return to the lunar surface, a stream of robotic explorers are carrying the ambitions of private companies aiming for a moon landing. For Intuit ...

The Moonhouse, the size of a big hand, was ready to hitch a ride to the moon on a lunar ... and even to the International Space Station 400 kilometers (248 miles) above Earth as a companion ...

The $93.3 million mission comes as NASA plans to send humans back to the moon within this decade for the first time since the space ... data and photos that were beamed back to Earth.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched lunar landers for Firefly Aerospace and the Japanese company ispace early this morning (Jan ...