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 Earth's Moon is its only one, but scientists recently discovered a new celestial body that will be staying near the ...

There are now over 10,000 satellites in orbit, more than at any point in history, and this growing number is starting to reveal how solar storms could disrupt internet mega constellations like SpaceX' ...

A 3D map of planet WASP-18b reveals extreme heat zones and broken water vapor in its atmosphere for the first time.

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 ...

Why do all planets in our solar system orbit the Sun the same way? This documentary unravels the cosmic forces, from the ...

When evaluating possible planets out of the thousands out there, explained Prof. Bean, scientists look for liquid water as a main guiding principle. “All life on Earth needs liquid water, no matter ...

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers have detected a new exoplanet ...

Scientists have discovered a rare six-planet system, HD 110067, where all planets orbit their star in perfect mathematical ...