Trained as a Soviet Air Force pilot from the age of 15 and a 1959 graduate of the Zhukovsky Air Force Academy, Vladimir Komarov piloted Voshkod 1 in 1964 – the first multi-human-passenger space ...

After passing south of Mars late on the 19th, Mercury passes 0.5° south of Saturn at 4 A.M. EDT this morning. Mars will later pass 1.3° north of Saturn at 2 P.M. EDT. This trio of planets congregates ...

The young cluster Pismis 24 lies at the heart of the Lobster Nebula (NGC 6357) in Scorpius. The brilliant stars rank among the hottest and most massive in our galaxy. Tens of thousands of background ...

Before we lose sight of Canis Major in the nighttime sky, get in a last good look at the Big Dog’s famous double star, 145 Canis Majoris, sometimes called the Winter Albireo. Two hours after sunset, ...

Yesterday, the four-person Artemis 2 crew completed the first crewed lunar flyby since Apollo 17 in 1972, passing within roughly 4,067 miles of the lunar surface before turning back toward Earth. The ...

Four astronauts have flown around the Moon today, the first crewed lunar mission since Apollo 17 in 1972. The seven-hour flyby took them farther from Earth than any humans in history — roughly 252,000 ...

Before wrapping up their first flight day, the crew of Artemis 2 pulled off another feat of NASA in-flight troubleshooting: fixing their broken toilet. It might not rank as NASA’s no. 1 triumph, or ...

Exciting planetary action takes place this month. Venus and Uranus vie for attention and lie close to each other in late April. Jupiter offers a lot to observe through a telescope, particularly events ...

The countdown has begun. The crew is ready. And barring any last-minute hiccups, four astronauts on Wednesday will begin a journey that sends them farther from Earth than any human has gone before.

A newly discovered comet has astronomers excited, with the potential to be a spectacular sight in early April. C/2026 A1 (MAPS) was spotted by a team of four amateur astronomers with a remotely ...

All living creatures are affected by the cycles of celestial objects. Humans have always been locked into the rhythms of sunrise and sunset, the phases of the Moon, and the seasons. We left some of ...