The moon dances with the king of the planets, with the horizon as their stage. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Look west after sunset on May 20 to witness the waxing crescent moon line up with bright Jupiter.

The moon and Venus will appear close together in the night sky Monday, May 18, visible across the Northern Hemisphere.

Venus and the moon will appear close together in the sky May 18. Here's how to see the celestial conjunction around the United States.

A report from Space Daily says the moon is receding from Earth at 3.8 centimetres per year.

A new NASA satellite will test critical technologies for storing and transferring super-chilled, cryogenic fuels in space in order to help astronauts reach the moon and potentially Mars someday. The Liquid Oxygen Flight demonstration (LOXSAT) will launch to orbit around the Earth later this year to test the fluid management capabilities that will be needed to maintain cryogenic fuels in microgravity,

Nuclear power plants are safer than many suspect. But putting reactors in space is a concept with a checkered history. One notorious reactor caused an international incident in 1978 after it came apart in Earth’s atmosphere.

The next competitive frontier may be off-world logistics: lunar cargo, surface transport, robotics, and power systems. Artemis is setting the table for a commercial lunar economy.

The Moon is now just over two days old, a sliver of its eastern limb lit by the Sun as sunrise slowly crawls across the nearside. Catch the delicate crescent this evening, when it stands just 2° from Venus in the darkening sky after sunset. The pair is ...

May's new moon in Taurus, which will be a supermoon, has much in store when it comes to pursuing new opportunities