Twenty years ago, the Huygens probe achieved humanity's first landing on a moon in the outer solar system when it touched ...
NASA's new Lunar Magnetotelluric Sounder, set to land on the Moon's surface in 2025, aims to revolutionize our understanding ...
In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...
Mars, Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn can be spotted without special equipment, with Uranus and Neptune requiring a telescope.
Have you read on social media about the “once in 396 billion years” planetary alignment happening on Jan. 25? Guess what? Social media is not reliable. Here’s what’s really going on — and why you ...
A research team from the University of Göttingen and the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) has discovered ...
Tonight (Jan. 13), bright Mars will disappear behind the full Wolf Moon for several hours before reappearing on the other ...
New moons occur when the moon is positioned between the Earth and the sun, meaning its shadowed side faces us and we get a moonless night. But, it does create opportunities for stargazing.
Six planets will all be visible at once in the night sky this month, lined up across the sky—but one is set to disappear from view.
If you are familiar with astrology then you probably already know what your zodiac (sun) sign is, yet there is so much more ...
Charon is large in size relative to Pluto, and is locked in a tight orbit with the dwarf planet. A new simulation suggests how it ended up there.
The Sun, the planets, and all else that constitutes the solar system are hurtling toward the star Lambda Herculis, some 370 ...