May's full moon will tell Iowans it's time to get back in their gardens. Here's when the next full moon will appear.

Enceladus, a small icy moon of Saturn, once seemed like an unremarkable satellite - until NASA’s Cassini mission changed ...

May 2025 has a couple of fun astronomical events that may have you looking to the skies. May is when we’ll have opportunities to see a meteor shower, the flower moon, 2 globular star ...

James Webb Space Telescope and the W.M. Keck Observatory captured new images of Saturn's moon Titan. Credit: NASA/STScI/W. M.

Meanwhile, astronomers are keeping watch for a rare nova—a sudden explosion of a distant star—that could appear to the naked eye sometime in the coming months. When it happens, the nova will ...

A moon that resembles an iconic, fictional space station known to destroy planets may be a home for life beyond Earth.

Stargazers can see clusters of shooting stars and planets lighting up the California night sky in May. Stunning streams of comet dust will dash across the sky when the Eta Aquarid meteor shower ...

A moon that resembles an iconic, fictional space station known to destroy planets may be a home for life beyond Earth.

NASA’s Power to Explore Challenge asks students to create a mission to a moon using radioisotope power systems.

Mars will skirt the edge of M44, also known as the Beehive Cluster. Mars will pass within a mere 37 arcminutes of this star cluster. Look to the South at 9:00pm. A simple pair of binoculars will ...

The month of May 2025 is shaping up to be a dazzling spectacle for skywatchers. From a micromoon known as the “Flower Moon” ...

The Dragonfly quadcopter will soar through Titan’s hazy skies and roam its dune seas in search of evidence that the distant ...