After World War II, Operation Paperclip quietly recruited German scientists to work on its most advanced weapons and space ...

A remnant of the Soviet Venus program, Kosmos 482 has stayed aloft in in Earth's orbit for 53 years. But it may make a return ...

“I want to land on Titan,” Patel said. “It is one of Saturn’s moons.” Patel has a passion for reading books, but oftentimes, he’ll gravitate toward nonfiction. “He’s read my ...

Credit: NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center NASA is gearing up for lunar landings with Artemis by testing how powerful rocket exhausts from SpaceX and Blue Origin landers will interact with the Moon’s ...

On April 25, a rare "smiley face" alignment of the Moon, Venus, and Saturn will appear before sunrise, followed by 2025's closest new supermoon on April 27—though it won't be visible. Listen to Story ...

NASA's pioneering Dragonfly mission has cleared a key hurdle, keeping it on track for a 2028 launch to Saturn's huge moon Titan. Dragonfly, a car-sized, nuclear-powered rotorcraft designed to ...

From KING 5's Columbia Tower Cam in Seattle, we were able to see the crescent moon, which gave us our smile and one bight eye, Venus. Unfortunately, the other eye, Saturn, ended up right behind a ...

Triple conjunction of planets with moon entails planets Venus and Saturn in conjunction with Moon, which means the three celestial bodies will appear very close to each other in the Hyderabadi sky.

In a rare and fleeting display early this morning, the skies offered a delightful surprise — a celestial ‘smiley face’ formed by the alignment of Venus, Saturn, and the crescent Moon. This phenomenon, ...

“The landers going to the Moon through Artemis are much larger and more powerful, so we need new data to understand the complex physics of landing and ascent,” said Ashley Korzun, principal ...