That’s us.’ From Pale Blue Dot (1994) by Carl Sagan. Photo courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech But what, exactly, should we make of ...

Well, in the predawn hours of April 25 it literally will be thanks to a double conjunction that will see Saturn, Venus and ...

Many assume that the Twelve Days of Christmas are those leading up to December 25 but actually Christmas Day itself ushers in these twelve days of celebration that end only on January 6 with the feast ...

Scientists are using cutting-edge techniques to track water ice on the Moon—an essential resource for future space missions.

Fresh advances in 3D scanning technology are making it possible to explore some of the hardest-to-reach and most fragile sites on Earth. This rendering of the Titanic is based on 715,000 photos ...

There are plenty of celestial landmarks you can see with the naked eye, and this month, you can view Mars and four of Jupiter ...

Stars were extremely significant to the inhabitants of Middle-earth in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings novel, especially the Elves.

An asteroid, 2024 YR4, once considered a potential Earth threat, now poses a 3.8% chance of hitting the Moon in 2032. Initially, NASA flagged a small possibility of Earth impact, but refined ...

The observed dryness in the mantle supports the theory that the moon formed through a massive collision between early Earth and a Mars-sized body 4.5 billion years ago. The uneven distribution of ...

In the new study, published April 4 in the journal Nature Astronomy, researchers revealed that WDJ181058.67+311940.94, a white dwarf binary star system located just 150 light-years from Earth, is ...

By January 2025, the asteroid’s orbit had been refined, and the possibility of an Earth impact was nearly ruled out. Still, a small chance remained that it could strike the Moon instead.