Hello everyone! Your two evening planets are an easy find this week. Just face due west around 7:20 p.m. and measure three-and-a-half fist-widths up and a fist-width to the left ...

Data from NASA's Juno mission has provided new insights into the thickness and subsurface structure of the icy shell encasing ...

After full moon, the terminator returns, but this time on the moon's opposite side, where it marks the line of advancing ...

A new study published as a pre-peer-reviewed paper on arXiv and accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics suggests ...

That would make it thousands of times more massive than any moon orbiting a solar system plane  — so massive it could make ...

NASA sent the Lucy probe out to study ancient space rocks, not to rewrite the rulebook on how small worlds can assemble ...

Scientists have discovered a 300-year-old giant black coral off New Zealand. Its massive size and age reveal hidden deep-sea ...

Planetary rings explained: composition, formation theories, and a comparison of Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune’s rings.

A black hole silent for 100 million years suddenly erupts again, launching vast plasma jets and reshaping its galaxy, leaving ...

With the Moon at new early in the week, January delivers some of the darkest evening skies of the season — ideal ...

A nuclear reactor on the moon would solve space exploration’s current chicken-and-egg quandary: whether to build power ...

Jupiter’s volcanic moon has always felt like a place that tests your sense of what a world can be. Its surface glows with hundreds of active hot spots. Its mountains rise higher than Everest. Its lava ...