Three celestial bodies are preparing to meet up for one night in September in a cosmic conjunction that should be widely visible in the sky.

Until recently, we could only study geology by looking at rocks on Earth and the Moon —well, and the rare meteor or two that ...

Who hasn't looked into the sky and wondered if there's life out there, somewhere, looking back at us? Is it possible there's ...

Astronomers have discovered what they think may be another moon orbiting a distant dwarf planet called Quaoar. This small, ...

This unexpected color raises new questions about the alien chemistry of comets from beyond our solar system. On Sept. 7 2025, the skies darkened as Earth's shadow consumed the moon. Skywatchers in ...

Yet, there is another natural satellite in the solar system that holds many real mysteries, which remain unexplained by science even today. This satellite is Titan, and I have seen many people ...

Early Earth lacked life’s essentials until a collision with Theia added them. This chance event made life possible. After the ...

The eight largest moons in our solar system are Ganymede, Titan, Callisto, Io, Earth's Moon, Europa, Triton, and Titania.

Riding alongside IMAP, NOAA's SWFO-L1 will serve as a dedicated solar alert system, monitoring space weather and energetic particles in real time. Its data will feed directly into NOAA's forecasting ...

The greatest challenge facing astrobiologists is that there is only one planet known to us that has life. Of all the bodies ...

A high-precision time measurement system based on the radioactive decay of manganese-53 was used to determine the precise age ...

If we set off in a spaceship traveling at the speed of light from Earth, we would reach the Moon in just 1.3 seconds. The distance of 380,000 kilometers between the Earth and the Moon is merely a ...