On September 22, our satellite passes in front of the famous star cluster M45 in a rare, breathtaking event, producing ...

For more details and timing of the event to determine when to watch and which stars you’ll see disappear, check out our ...

This upcoming full moon will also be the last one prior to an annular (ring) eclipse of the sun on October 2. And this full ...

The planets always appear lying along the ecliptic, which is the plane of our solar system. Mercury is 48 million miles away from Earth when they are at their closest. The maximum distance ...

China set to unveil long-term vision for space science The Chinese Academy of Sciences is aiming to accelerate its progress ...

A passing star may have kicked the weird moons of giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn into place, new research suggests.

While modern humans tend to think of science in terms of innovations made during the past 100 to 200 years, mankind has ...

“Such nebulae as we see have, it seems, a greater analogy with the solar corona than with the fiery condensing mists conceived of by Laplace” (Proctor, “Old and New Astronomy,” § 1445 ...

Occultations occur in cycles, as the Moon journeys on its monthly trek five degrees above and below the ecliptic plane ... Lots of observational astronomy is no more than watching one thing pass in ...

On the day of the event, the planets will be positioned along the ecliptic plane, the apparent path the Sun ... and familiarize yourself with the night sky using star charts or astronomy apps. Joining ...

Sep. 13, 2024 — Physicists propose that a mysterious force known as early dark energy could solve two of the biggest puzzles in cosmology and fill in some major gaps in our understanding of how ...