Russia is apparently getting ready to return to the searing surface of Venus. The nation wants to launch Venera-D — a multi-vehicle mission involving a lander, balloon and orbiter —

Ever since that fateful 1950s day in New Jersey when Steve Spielberg’s father roused him from slumber to take a late-night rural drive out to watch a spectacular shooting star

The full Worm Moon rises off the coast of the UK. (Image credit: Josh Dury) Astrophotographer Josh Dury captured a gorgeous composite view of the March full moon as it

A high-speed stream of solar wind is expected to sweep past Earth tonight (March 13), potentially triggering minor (G1) geomagnetic storm conditions according to NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center. Forecasters

NASA’s Artemis 2 moon mission will put its astronauts in danger — but just how much danger is tough to say. The agency announced on Thursday (March 12) that it’s

SpaceX’s plan to launch one million orbiting data centers to space worries astronomers,who say the satellite streaks caused by the proposed constellation would severely impair observations. Just as astronomers began