The Earth's Moon is its only one, but scientists recently discovered a new celestial body that will be staying near the planet for the next several decades.
November’s full moon is only the second supermoon of 2025 and it is expected to be its brightest. The moon will come within ...
Skywatchers will get to witness the largest “supermoon” of the year to begin November.
Here are some quick facts about supermoons and how you can possibly make the most of it when the full moon shines down over Indiana this week.
The irregular shapes and orbits of Mars’s two small moons ... providing high-resolution views that confirm their positions ...
There are now over 10,000 satellites in orbit, more than at any point in history, and this growing number is starting to ...
Jupiter will reach its highest point in the sky around dawn, when, from mid-northern latitudes, it will appear about 20 ...
In about 5 billion years, our Sun will run out of hydrogen fuel and collapse into a dense, Earth-sized remnant called a white dwarf. Though it will no longer shine as it once did, this stellar core ...
How far is the moon? I’ll bet that many of my readers know the answer; we all learned it in school. In fact, I still recall reciting it in fifth grade: ...
Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...
Spacetime isn’t something that exists; it’s a model for describing how events happen. Treating events as objects creates philosophical confusion and fuels misconceptions, such as time-travel paradoxes ...
A team of astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to create the first 3D atmospheric map of an exoplanet. The fiery WASP-18b, a massive “ultra-hot Jupiter,” revealed striking temperature ...