The McNair-Davis Planetarium installed their scale replica planets display as renovations to the Jackson facility continue.

Distance from Earth (logarithmic scale) - Moon 1 mi 10 mi 100 mi 1,000 mi 10,000 mi 100,000 mi Moon 1M mi 10M mi 100M mi 1B ...

Venus and Jupiter remain visible in the evening sky soon after sunset early in July, although Jupiter fairly quickly drops ...

Turn an eye toward the sky Saturday at an observation session at the Shreveport Observatory. Astronomy enthusiasts will guide ...

Earth is, simply put, a ball of confusion these days for most of us—from its pandemics to its politics and everything in ...

Neptune’s third-largest moon, Nereid, could be an intact survivor from the planet’s original satellite system, upending ...

Neptune's mysterious, far-flung moon Nereid may be the last of the planet's original companions. Scientists at the California Institute of Technology reported Wednesday that they used NASA's ...

Now in Cancer, the Moon is not far from M44, the Beehive Cluster. Check out this lovely open cluster with binoculars or a ...

There are more opportunities to access space than ever, thanks to a bevy of commercial rockets, some with reusable boosters, ...

If you’ve ever sat in an airplane seat wondering what all those dings and bongs mean and whether the pilots actually know what they’re doing, you need to visit the Museum of Flight in Seattle. This ...

Alabama designed and built the first rocket that sent Americans to the moon, which can be explored at the U.S.