The Perseids peak this week with up to 25 meteors an hour, but moonlight and other celestial events could dim the dazzling summer display.

Wondering what planets are visible right now? Jupiter and Venus are meeting up in the sky, at least from our vantage point.

A planetary conjunction takes place when two or more planets seem to align closely in the sky as viewed from Earth, despite ...

Hubble Space Telescope images of Jupiter have been "photo-mapped onto a sphere," and animated into a full rotation, according ...

This week, skygazers have two celestial events to be excited about, with a Jupiter-Venus planetary conjunction and the ...

The Lucy spacecraft is already well on its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids. But that doesn't mean that it can't make some ...

Venus and Jupiter, the brightest planets in our solar system, are about to make their closest approach during their August ...

Jupiter and Venus will appear closest over Aug. 11-12, according to NASA, appearing as if they’re “grazing” each other despite still being millions of miles apart. It comes as a popular meteor shower, ...

Schwartz: A 25% cut to NASA would set back institutions like the University of Colorado The administration’s proposal would cut NASA from about $24.9 billion to $18.8 billion — the agency’s ...

Space Nearly 4,000 NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program The employees who have chosen to leave the agency amount to about 20% of NASA’s workforce.

Editors share what they heard at AIAA's showcase events in Las Vegas and their concerns about what the NASA cuts could mean for U.S. competitiveness in commercial aviation and space.