The Eta Aquarid meteor shower brings shooting stars before dawn, the Moon meets brilliant Venus after sunset, and May wraps up with a rare Blue Moon.

The Eta Aquarid meteor shower brings shooting stars before dawn, the Moon meets brilliant Venus after sunset, and May wraps up with a rare Blue Moon. Look to the early morning sky around May 5-6 for ...

May features a Flower Moon, a micro blue moon, and even a meteor shower. Read below for the astronomical events for the month ...

NASA announced a successful test of a sci-fi-sounding lithium metal vapor electric thruster propulsion system that could ...

That activity was Comet C/2025 R3, which recently made its closest approach to both Earth and the sun. In footage posted by ...

NASA has tested a lithium-fed thruster that could become a workhorse for future Mars missions, and the key milestone is not ...

Amentum is hiring roughly 100 workers for its COMET contract with NASA for Artemis missions at Kennedy Space Center, with a ...

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Regina Barber and Nell Greenfieldboyce about the Artemis moon missions, the "seismic quiet" during a solar eclipse, and the origins of a mysterious interstellar visitor.

Astronomers analyzed the vapors coming off the comet when it neared the sun and found it had a lot of "heavy" water. That ...

The ion tail appeared as Comet C/2025 R3 PanSTARRS was about 45 million miles from Earth (72 million kilometers) during its ...

The next full moon of 2026 will be a rare one-of-two in the same month. Here's when and what to know about May's flower moon ...