"With only lunar soil and a basic ingredient from the sun — which is always spitting out hydrogen — there's a possibility of ...

A dazzling snapshot from ESO’s Paranal Observatory captures a rare sky parade — the Moon, a comet, and nearly every visible planet strung across the heavens. This celestial lineup is an optical ...

Skywatchers worldwide are in for a charming cosmic display before the sun rises Friday, as three celestial bodies will appear ...

Here's what will be visible in the night sky in the United States in May 2025. On May 12, the skies will be treated to the Flower Moon, also known as the Corn Planting Moon, Milk Moon, Hare's Moon and ...

Well, in the predawn hours of April 25 it literally will be thanks to a double conjunction that will see Saturn, Venus and ...

Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...

China launched two satellites atop a Yuanzheng-1S mounted on a Long March-2C rocket. While the first and second stages were ...

The internet has been abuzz with the possibility of sky watchers seeing a “smiley face” in the eastern sky above the horizon ...

Best viewed from the Northern Hemisphere, the Lyrid meteor shower is the world's oldest known of its kind and reliably occurs ...

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

The next supermoon is expected to reach its closest distance to Earth along its orbit. But even without clouds in the sky, it ...

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