Out past Neptune are countless small icy and rocky bodies called Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), and many of these have moons ...

The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis. According to this story, when the ...

In late 2024, astronomers spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 on a trajectory that could potentially threaten Earth. This observation ...

Coming up this thursday night the total lunar eclipse, otherwise known as a blood moon will be visible for just about everyone across north america.Meteorologis ...

Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore departed the International Space Station (ISS) early on Tuesday morning and splashed down ...

The moon does not orbit the Earth in a perfectly flat plane around our planet’s equator. Rather, its orbit is slightly cockeyed, tilted at an angle of 5.145 degrees. That means that sometimes ...

In the Americas alone more than one billion people in 35 countries could bear witness to the total lunar eclipse.

The tri-state area is being treated to a full lunar eclipse early tomorrow. If you manage to be awake between 2:26 a.m. and 3 ...

The dark skies during a new moon provide ideal conditions for spotting skywatching targets that would otherwise be outshined by moonlight. The next new moon will occur on Saturday, March 29, at 6: ...

The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target.

With a whopping total of 274 moons, researchers say Saturn’s tug of war with Jupiter for the title is settled once and for ...

The type of lunar eclipse depends on how precise the alignment of the three bodies is. The moon does not orbit the Earth in a ...