Hunting the elusive counter glow known as the gegenschein takes sharp eyes, dark skies, persistence and patience. This weekend provides an excellent chance to check this one off your astronomical life list, as the Moon heads toward New phase. Here are our tips on sighting the gegenschein, along with facts, history and more.

The Moon is the first object in space that fascinate us Earthlings, and wondering how it got there is a compelling question.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER - Looking amazingly like a fish flying across the skies high above the Florida space coast, NASA's unique Super Guppy aircraft loaded with the structural backbone for NASA's next Orion crew module, swooped in for a landing at the Kennedy Space Center on Monday afternoon, Feb. 1.

The Ariane 5 rocket will carry the James Webb Space Telescope into orbit and send it on its way to L2.

The Crab Nebula, or Messier 1 (M1) is a supernova remnant left over when a massive star detonated in 1054 A.D. It's the first of the Messier Objects.

We've decided to republish Tammy Plotner's Guide to the Messier Objects and Constellations, starting today with M1 - the Crab Nebula.

Wow. This video will knock your socks off ... at least it did mine. This new flyover video of Ceres was created using enhanced images taken by the Dawn spacecraft's framing camera.

On the road to restoring US Human spaceflight from US soil, SpaceX conducted a pair of key tests involving a propulsive hover test and parachute drop test for their Crew Dragon vehicle which is slated to begin human missions in 2017.

Robin Biesbroek's book "Lunar and Interplanetary Trajectories" will show you some of the tricks of the trade in optimizing missions, whether choosing the best launch system or balancing an orbit about a Lagrange point.

Here on Earth, a year lasts roughly 365.2 days. But on the other planets in our Solar System, things get a little more complicated...

A new video shows us in striking detail where we live in the Universe.

Blue Origin reaches an historic milestone as their New Shepard rocket becomes the first successful reusable rocket.

Astrophotographer Matt Dieterich thoughtfully identified all the constellations in this amazing mosaic image of the Milky Way captured from Glacier National Park in Montana in May, 2016.

A recently discovered planet that orbits its star at 1 trillion kilometres raises questions about our understanding of solar system formation.