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 later a young moon will pass near Saturn and near Venus as they cluster ...

Mining ocean resources needed for electric cars and other devices is currently a hot issue of dispute. Final resolution of ...

Elon Musk might have his sights set on settling Mars, but recent ... a far easier time on the moon. Scientists have come up with many ideas for growing food in outer space. One concerns growing ...

The Wolf Moon will reach its peak fullness at 5:27 p.m. Eastern Time on January 13. It will rise in the sky about an hour earlier, at 4:28 p.m. ET, and remain visible until 8:09 a.m. ET the next ...

NEW YORK — Six planets grace the sky this month in what's known as a planetary parade, and most can be seen with the naked ...

None of the moons ... Saturn is perhaps the best-known example, swathed by eight main rings made of thousands of smaller ringlets, but the other three outer planets also possess rings, the Voyager ...

Starting Monday, Feb. 3, the day after Groundhog Day, you should be able to see another planetary parade in the night sky, this time joined by the crescent moon. Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Venus, Neptune ...

Why it's so special: This picture was taken by the European Space Agency's Huygens probe ... the probe was approximately 3 miles (5 km) above Saturn's largest moon. The probe's descent from ...

On January 14, 2005, a spacecraft landed on one of Saturn's moons! The European Space Agency's Huygens probe ... had ever landed on a moon in the outer solar system. Huygens took some amazing ...

Twenty years ago today, I watched TV coverage of a probe descending toward the surface of Titan, a moon of Saturn ... is his most famous space scene. In it, Saturn hangs over windswept snow ...