A world-leading designer of space robots says gigantic new rockets being tested by billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are ...

Space book authors Emily Carney and Bruce McCandless III offer a primer for the new Space Age with a look at how it all ...

But that’s not all. Chicagoans will also likely get to witness a lunar occultation of Mars and a parade of planets. A lunar occultation occurs when the moon passes in front of an object ...

Mars will be making its closest approach to Earth in two years, and thus, the mighty red planet, named for the god of war ...

Samantha Harvey’s Booker-winning novel 'Orbital' is far more than science-fiction; it raises deeper questions about what it ...

THE moon is just a chunk of the Earth and not mainly part of an ancient planet as previously thought, scientists claim. Experts had believed our satellite was created when hypothetical body Theia ...

It is in opposition, making it one of the brightest objects near the moon. Opposition means that Mars is directly opposite the sun from Earth’s perspective, making it fully illuminated and ideal for ...

An alignment of six planets will dazzle in January 2025. Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune will align in the ...

Exoplanet WASP-127b is a hot Jupiter, a gas giant planet orbiting very close to its star. The system is more than 500 ...

Some space conspiracy theories just won't go away.

Another highlight of the year’s first planet parade: after sunset on February 1, Venus and the crescent moon will appear close together in the southwest sky for several hours before plummeting ...