The two-day-old moon meets up with Jupiter tonight (Feb. 22), making a close approach and sharing the same right ascension in an arrangement known as a conjunction.
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Now you can launch and crash vehicles for Kerbonauts in new and spectacular ways in the sequel releasing to the popular Kerbal Space Program space game Friday (Feb. 24).
The James Webb Space Telescope found massive, mature galaxies inhabiting the universe so soon after the Big Bang that according to current theories they really shouldn't exist.
Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos' private spaceflight company, claims it has made major progress in developing a way to make solar panels using materials from the lunar surface.
A new Hubble Space Telescope image highlights a region in the dwarf satellite galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud that is rich in stars.
Scientists analyzing videos of Ingenuity’s historic first flights on Mars are learning more about dust behavior on the Red Planet.
As we pass the show's 30th anniversary, we look back at the enduring legacy of Babylon 5, one of sci-fi's most underrated shows.
Crewmembers on the International Space Station are awaiting the fresh spacecraft, which will replace a leaky Soyuz currently docked with the orbiting complex.
On Wednesday (Feb. 22), the moon and Venus will make a close approach and also reach conjunction, which happens when they share the same right ascension.
SpaceX and NASA have pushed the launch of the Crew-6 astronaut mission by a day to Feb. 27, allowing more time to investigate several minor issues.
A new model suggests how gravitational waves created by the collision between black holes spread and interact within the fabric of space-time.
A Japanese cubesat launched aboard NASA's Artemis 1 moon mission took a video of Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) earlier this month, about two weeks after the ice ball's closest approach to Earth.
The crewmembers of SpaceX's next astronaut mission to the International Space Station have arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center for their upcoming Feb. 26 launch.
The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft Endeavour has made it to the Florida launch site ahead of a planned Feb. 26 liftoff on the Crew-6 mission for NASA.
Fasting during the Islamic holy month is not required for travelers, but Sultan Al-Neyadi said he may try to do so after launching aboard a SpaceX spacecraft on Feb. 26.
The robots currently exploring Mars may not be capable of detecting potential traces of life on the Red Planet, a new study finds.
Russia has moved the launch of a replacement Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station to Feb. 23 , after previously delaying the liftoff to March.
The new moon meets Venus and Jupiter in the sky on Wednesday (Feb. 22) early in the morning and you can watch it live via the Virtual Telescope Project.
An asteroid larger than the Empire State Building that was once considered an impact risk of Earth raced past the planet in February and astronomers managed to take a proper look at it.

