Spot overlapping meteor showers this month, along with the Moon sharing the sky with some of the brightest planets.

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, June 6 The Moon passes 0.5° south of the magnitude 1.0 star Spica at 11 A.M. EDT. The pair hangs in the evening sky, located in the ...

Spica is a binary star system located 250 light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo. The waxing gibbous moon will shine close to the bright star Spica in the night sky tonight, ahead of ...

Beyond just finding these new small bodies, Rubin Observatory will observe them multiple times using different optical filters, revealing their surface colors. Past solar system surveys were ...

Astronomers have revealed new research showing that millions of new solar system objects are likely to be detected by a brand-new facility, which is expected to come online later this year.

In the process, we can say goodbye to Mercury for sure, Venus most likely, and probably even Earth. But this assumes that nothing affects the Solar System in the meantime, and that is not a certainty.

The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, Amy Simon (NASA-GSFC), Michael H. Wong (UC Berkeley) / VISUALIZATION ...

HELSINKI — Researchers are examining how artificial intelligence technologies could support a planned Chinese mission to the boundaries of the solar system, according to a new paper.

Using numerical simulations, the researchers figured out that a flyby like this would have about a 1 in 100 chance at reshaping our Solar System into what it is today, and that the interloping ...

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station snapped this picture of the Moon as the station orbited 265 miles above the U.S. state of Minnesota on Dec. 17, 2021. Astronauts aboard the orbital ...

An illustration of the solar system (not to scale), including the sun, inner rocky planets, asteroid belt, the outer gassy planets, and—beyond Neptune—the Kuiper belt and the Oort cloud.