Peter Lowenstein in Mutare, Zimbabwe, caught this photo of a waxing moon, setting, with what's called a Golden Handle (the curved feature at top right, jutting up along the line between light and dark on the moon).

Follow the route of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, as it moves to a new part of Mount Sharp, into an area scientists call the “clay-bearing unit”.

In North America, the May full moon carries the name Flower Moon. 2019's May full moon on the 18th is a Blue Moon, the 3rd of 4 moons in a season. This Blue Moon will be near bright Antares and brighter Jupiter. It'll be poised to occult dwarf planet Ceres.

Dwarf planet Haumea orbits in Pluto's realm of the solar system. It's the most distant little world known to have a ring. Scientists in Brazil have new insights on how Haumea's ring maintains its nearly perfect circular shape.

The moon is shrinking as its interior cools. As it shrinks, its crust wrinkles and cracks, forming "thrust faults" that, according to a new analysis, generate moonquakes.

The atmospheres of our 2 neighbors Mars and Venus can teach us a lot about past and future scenarios for our own planet.

Scientists say a bald cypress tree in the North Carolina wetlands is at least 2,624 years old.

The discovery of dozens of pregnant giant devil rays tangled in fishing nets in Mexico’s Gulf of California could mean the endangered species has an unknown birthing zone there, says a new study.

The International Space Station passing over Rome's city lights on April 30, 2019.

Meet Spica in the constellation Virgo, one of our sky's most fascinating stars. On May 15 and 16, 2019, the moon is near Spica, which the only bright star in the large, rambling constellation Virgo the Maiden.