Look to the eastern sky late Thursday, and a clear horizon will show you this unusual, grinning planet alignment.

Images of a supposed "Smiley Face Moon" have been popping up on social media. Here's what's real about this week's sky show.

Stranded astronauts and celebrity space tourism have piqued interest in space — and a photography exhibition in the museum is ...

Be on the lookout for shooting stars and fireballs as two meteor showers — the Lyrids and the Eta Aquarids — overlap through ...

The rare triple conjunction will see the crescent Moon meet Venus and Saturn in the night sky in a triangular formation, forming a celestial smirk – with the planets as the 'eyes' and the Moon as the ...

A new survey of distant galaxies undertaken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is revealing new secrets of the "cosmic noon"—when galaxies in the young universe underwent something of an awkward ...

In celebration of the Hubble Space Telescope's 35 years in Earth orbit, NASA is releasing an assortment of compelling images ...

Scientists and space explorers have been on the hunt to determine where and how much ice is present on the moon. Water ice ...

The morning of April 24 will give rise to a striking mini-planetary parade, as Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Neptune, and Earth's moon cluster together in the same region of the pre-dawn sky, making for a ...