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A single shot shows a Super Full “Blue” Moon which don’t have nothing of blue, rising above Monsaraz castle at Dark Sky® Alqueva, in Portugal.

Stylish, small and lightweight, the compact Nikon Aculon T02 8x21 offers limited — yet pleasing — views of planets, the moon and star fields.

Loren Grush, author of new book 'The Six,' spoke with Space.com about Sally Ride, Judith Resnik and other pioneering NASA women astronauts.

An engine used to launch an Israeli company's attempt at landing on the moon has landed in the Smithsonian. Along with a grid fin, it is one of the first SpaceX artifacts to join the collection.

The gravitational waves are emitted by ultracompact binaries of black holes, neutron stars and white dwarfs.

Saturn and its rings will be visible near a bright moon tonight. Here's how to catch a glimpse of the two celestial marvels.

The asteroid sample collected by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft landed in Houston today (Sept. 25), a day after arriving on Earth from very deep space.

NASA is looking for spacecraft ideas to remove the U.S. segment of the International Space Station after its expected retirement in 2030.

Team members of NASA's VERITAS Venus mission tested key technologies and techniques in volcanic regions in Iceland recently.

The autopilot on Perseverance Mars rover guided it through a particularly hazardous boulder field In July, saving weeks of precious science time.

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed galaxies defying the "cosmic rulebook" in the early universe, to the surprise of astronomers who hope to learn more about the evolution of the universe.

As his spacecraft was hurtling toward Earth carrying irreplaceable asteroid samples from deep space, Dante Lauretta was just trying to avoid having a breakdown in front of an international audience.

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has shown that an exoplanet around a star in the constellation Leo has some of the chemical markers that, on Earth, are associated with living organisms.

With beautiful AR functionality and a host of fascinating information, Sky Tonight Star Gazer Guide has a lot to offer stargazing enthusiasts.

This year’s final supermoon, September’s Harvest Full Moon, rises on Friday, Sept. 29, bringing a summer of supermoons to a close and joined by a planetary parade of Jupiter, Saturn, and Mercury.

It’s hard to keep a spacecraft cool, but ongoing research on the International Space Station might yield a solution.

In the extreme hearts of neutron stars, fundamental particles are twisted into strange 'pasta' shapes that could reveal untold secrets about how dead stars evolve.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx probe, which delivered samples of the space rock Bennu to Earth, is now on an extended voyage to study the infamous near-Earth asteroid Apophis.

An invisible halo of misaligned dark matter could explain the warps at the Milky Way's edges.

Hey NASA, you've just landed your first samples from an asteroid! Where are they going next? Houston, of course.

NASA successfully recovered a capsule containing samples of asteroid Bennu taken by its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2020.