Air and Space

For years, Neptune was shown to be “too blue" but researchers with the University of Oxford used modeling to show Uranus and Neptune are closer in color.

NASA's Mars rover captures time-lapse of the red planet

The annual Quadrantid meteor shower peaks this week, and it's considered one of the best of the year. Here's how to catch a glimpse.

The year will feature 12 full Moons, plenty of meteor showers, five eclipses and four Supermoons.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is on a new adventure to intersect the asteroid Apophis, named after the Egyptian spirit of chaos, as it makes a close approach to Earth.

Japan's lunar lander began its orbit of the Moon on Monday, setting the nation up for its first Moon landing in the coming weeks.

December's full moon, also known as the “Cold Moon” and “Long Night Moon,” will reach peak illumination this week.

NGC 2264, known as the "Christmas Tree Cluster," is a group of young stars in our Milky Way about 2,500 light years away from Earth, according to NASA.

These findings expand the search for life in the universe, as it bucks the typical approach of finding liquid water, a necessary ingredient for life.

Stargazers can catch the aerial display when it peaks on Dec. 13.

An astronaut spending the holidays aboard the International Space Station shared a sweet Hanukkah message from 250 miles above Earth.

One of the biggest and brightest stars in the night sky will momentarily vanish as an asteroid passes in front of it to produce a one-of-a-kind eclipse.

Astronaut Mary Cleave, the first woman to fly on a NASA shuttle following the devastating 1986 Challenger explosion, died on Monday, NASA announced on its website. She was 76.

The final full Moon of the year will light the sky around Christmas and the Geminid meteor shower peaks in mid-December.

Known as the Beaver Moon, November’s full moon will reach peak illumination early next week.

NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment beamed a near-infrared laser from nearly 10 million miles away to the Hale Telescope at Caltech’s Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California.

The James Webb Space Telescope helped astronomers discovered a massive star about 30 times the mass of our Sun within the Milky Way's star-forming region Sagittarius C.

SpaceX's 400-foot-tall launch system known as Starship launched from Texas on Saturday, reaching the edge of space.

This giant, "fluffy" exoplanet has clouds filled with sand that rains down like water does on Earth, scientists have discovered.