On Feb. 28, the one-day-old moon will pass in front of Mercury for observers in Australia and the south Pacific, and on March 1 the moon will make a close pass to Venus.

Lunar Trailblazer, an orbiter that shared a launch on Wednesday with the commercial Athena lander, will help scientists ...

A new "supermoon" on Feb. 27, 2025, foreshadows the start of Ramadan, a total lunar eclipse on March 13-14 and a partial ...

Now, Firefly is about to find out if its lunar program is a technical success. Landing on the Moon is risky. In the last decade, the success rate for lunar landing attempts is a little above 50 ...

Throughout January, Central New York enjoyed another rare occurence: A month-long planetary alignment of Venus, Saturn, ...

America’s space community is having a phony and destructive debate about whether the U.S. should continue its current focus ...

SpaceX launched its second lunar mission of 2025, just over a month after flying the Firefly Blue Ghost and HAKUTO-R M2 Resilience landers to the Moon atop a single Falcon 9. Another Falcon 9, this ...

The companies Intuitive Machines, Firefly Aerospace, and ispace are all preparing to land on the moon. A new era of lunar ...

March 1 is a good evening to view the planet Venus in conjunction with the waxing (getting larger) crescent moon. Venus will be a bright light in the early evening sky.

If all goes according to plan, the Athena lander will touch down near the moon's south pole on or around March 6.

Intuitive Machines is set to launch its second moon lander, which will use NASA and commercially developed tools to search ...

Houston-based Intuitive Machines successfully completed the second launch of its lunar lander mission at 7:17 p.m. EST ...