Moon, Jupiter, Venus are dancing at dawn
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By Alan M. MacRobert, Globe Correspondent | November 6, 2004. In this darkening season, lots of people start the day before sunrise.
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See why day and night are equal during an equinox, and learn how ancient cultures incorporated the biannual event into their beliefs.
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Amateur stargazers who stayed up into the early hours today were rewarded with fleeting glimpses of a total eclipse of the moon. Bad weather had threatened to obscure
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Composite postcard from Saturnian moon
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NASA is about to embark on an unprecedented asteroid-belt mission with a spacecraft aptly named Dawn. The 3 billion-mile, eight-year journey to probe the earliest stages of the solar system will begin with liftoff, planned for just after sunrise Thursday. Rain is forecast, however, and could force a delay.
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NASA's Dawn spacecraft has left Earth on a mission to explore the giant asteroids Ceres and Vesta.  Today's Science@NASA story explains the scientific reasons for making the trip.
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The Cassini spacecraft&#39;s first radar images of Saturn&#39;s largest moon, Titan, have revealed a diverse frozen landscape of bright streaks that may be ice ridges
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Consider it an early Christmas gift: On Dec. 24th the Moon and Mars are putting on a beautiful late-night sky show.
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Like Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers gliding across the silver screen, the planets Venus and Jupiter dance cheek-to-cheek through our morning skies Thursday and Friday.
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By Lisa M. KriegerSTAFF  For the first time in three years, the moon will be totally eclipsed by the Earth's shadow on Saturday -- but the Bay Area will miss most of the show.   The Earth's shadow will begin moving across the moon at 12:18 p.m.
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The US spacecraft Dawn, due to launch on Sunday, will take a close look at two massive asteroids to try to penetrate the mystery of our solar system&#39;s origins 4.6 billion years ago.
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When floating through space, and orbiting the Earth, an astronaut witnesses a sunset and sunrise every 45 minutes. Exploring beyond the atmosphere furthers
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By RICK CALLAHAN   Associated Press writer  OMEGA, Ind. -- Take a walk on a clear, dark night far from city lights and be prepared to be awed by a sky blanketed with stars of various magnitudes, the Milky Way's wispy arm and brilliant planets.
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Until the rain clouds moved in, I was watching the juxtaposition of two planets that appeared to be converging on the same spot in the early-morning eastern sky.
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You won't want to miss this:  Venus and Jupiter, the two brightest planets, will be beautifully close together just before sunrise on Thursday, Nov. 4th, and Friday, Nov. 5th.
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Cassini has photographed icy volcanic flows and a large lake of what could be methane on Saturn&#39;s mysterious moon Titan. The observations suggest Titan is geologically active and, and its environment
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When the space station passes across the Sun or moon, the scene offers an interesting demonstration of how planet hunter's look for new candidates by measuring the periodic dimming of a parent star.