On the evenings of Friday, Nov. 28 through Sunday, Nov. 30, a waxing gibbous moon moves past Saturn in the southern sky — an ...

Perseverance's main job is Martian weather forecasting, but its routine solar scans on November 25 unexpectedly detected the ...

NASA has announced the discovery of a peculiar celestial object named CWISE J1249, which challenges existing classifications ...

As the Sun and its planets orbit the center of the galaxy, we carve out a path that scientists have previously calculated ...

New research suggests Earth's Moon formed from the catastrophic collision of our planet with its "sister" planet, Theia, born nearby. This "sibling" planet theory, supported by iron isotope evidence, ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS is cutting across the solar system on a trajectory that does not quite match expectations, threading past the ...

I/ATLAS is a rare visitor from outer space that has captured the attention of astronomers since its discovery in July 2025.

Astronomers measure the speed at which the solar system is hurtling through space by mapping surrounding galaxies and ...

Planet hunters have grown used to strange worlds, but a handful of discoveries now point to something even more radical: ...

Space has a knack for bending our sense of scale. The Moon feels close enough to touch—after all, we see its craters with ...

Week of November 30 - December 6, 2025 The brilliant moon illuminates our night sky again this week, reaching its full phase ...

When it launches, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be tuned to the frequency needed to measure oscillations on over ...