How many aspects of our galaxy are still unknown to us? In actuality, many secrets in this cosmos are gradually being ...

Ahead of its dance with Saturn on Feb. 24, Mercury should be seen on Feb. 19 at magnitude -1.2 with binoculars 20 minutes ...

In January 2025, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune were all visible in the night sky. And in February, 2025, ...

The giant-impact hypothesis posits that billions of years ago a Mars-sized body named Theia collided with the early Earth.

Saturn, Venus, Neptune, Uranus, Jupiter, Mars and Mercury will be visible in an uncommon planetary alignment this month.

NASA scientists have detected a star and trailing exoplanet that may be sailing through the Milky Way with unprecedented ...

Venus is now at its almost unbelievably brightest at a marvelous time when many other (though less radiant) planets and ...

When Earth first formed, it was too hot to retain ice. This means all the water on our planet must have originated from ...

Make time soon to head outside after the sun sets and study the sky. Five of the brightest planets — Venus, Jupiter, Mars, ...

That’s quite a big gap, as it turns out. It covers fields from gigantic bodies like the Sun and Earth, as well as those ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also applies to northern hemisphere mid-northern ...

NASA is a methodical institution that plans its missions years or even decades in advance, enjoys a famously loyal workforce ...