Learn about the solar system from a pair of real space museum curators in sci-fi game Elite Dangerous, as Abbie MacKinnon and ...

Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host star disintegrating as its surface is ...

The Moon, Venus, and Saturn are expected to briefly align into a rare formation resembling a “smiley face” this week, Nasa ...

Texas stargazers can catch a rare "smiley face" in the sky on Friday, April 25. Venus, Saturn and the Moon will create the ...

In astronomy, a conjunction occurs when two celestial objects—like planets, the Moon, or stars—appear very close together in ...

Here’s a little spoiler for next month’s Cosmic Calendar: early May will see the return of the Eta Aquarid meteor shower. The ...

According to Culbertson, Venus will be the higher of the two “eyes” while Saturn will be the lower, and the thin, crescent ...

Through its "Moon to Mars" program, NASA plans to send the first crewed missions to Mars by the end of the next decade. To ...

Originally, the hypothesis was that Theia gave the Earth a glancing blow, and the proto-Earth and Theia lost pieces ending up as one or two moons that eventually formed the Moon. It was thought that a ...

New research suggests meteor showers are so unpredictable due to the Sun’s own motion around the solar‑system barycenter.

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles ...

In a breakthrough that could reshape future lunar exploration, NASA researchers have confirmed that the solar wind—a stream ...