Scheduled to launch on Feb. 27, NASA's PUNCH mission could revolutionize space weather forecasts, unify the solar corona and ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

Look up this week for February’s full snow moon and to catch the last glimpse of a visible parade of planets in the night sky ...

An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.

The impact on the oceans if the Moon disappeared would be much smaller tides, about one-third the size of what they are now. Tides churn up material in the oceans, which allows coastal ecosystems to ...

Skywatchers on Thursday evening, Feb. 6, will notice an eye-catching pairing-off between two of the brightest objects in the ...

The full moon became known as the snow moon since it rises in one of the snowiest months in the United States.

But surprisingly, the object’s orbit around the sun is similar to Earth’s, suggesting that 2024 PT5 originated from our corner of the solar system ... with the Earth-Moon system, and then ...

Exciting February sky events include Venus at its brightest and closest to Earth, the moon occulting the Pleiades, and a ...

Predictions are uncertain, but the solar system may be pushed farther from the galactic core or even ejected entirely from ...

A research team has discovered another piece in the puzzle of the formation of the Moon and water on Earth. The prevailing ... the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) has ...

At the end of 2024, astronomers detected an asteroid in the night sky. It was given the designation Y, since it was ...