Scientists observed that all examined craters are situated within 30 degrees of the equator. This concentrated impact area, ...

Of all the astronomical objects visible in a telescope, none has captured human imagination more than the planet Saturn.

Saturn gets close to the moon tonight, and skywatchers in Florida, northwestern South America, the Caribbean and Central ...

This is a good opportunity to get a feeling for just how fast the Moon is moving through night sky. Look each hour and you'll ...

may have been the result of an asteroid’s passing just close enough to our prehistoric planet to break up into innumerable pieces. (Unlike Saturn’s ring, it wouldn’t have been composed of so ...

In November 2024, a supermoon will illuminate the sky, coinciding with various global festivals such as Kartik Purnima, Loy ...

The waning gibbous Moon, still quite bright following its recent Full phase close to ... dark splash of Saturn’s shadow blocking out a small portion of the farside of the rings on the planet ...

Voyager 1 switched to a very old backup radio transmitter, not used since 1981, restoring NASA’s contact amid communication ...

A new study suggests that the planet’s icy interior and liquid ocean could be insulated with a three-to-six-mile-thick layer ...

This evening, astronomy enthusiasts have an exciting opportunity to witness a beautiful phenomenon in the sky as the moon and ...

Venus is the brilliant evening “star” now shining at magnitude -4 in the southwest at dusk. In early November—five months ...