"The temperature just wildly swings from extremely hot to extremely cold," John Monnier, a professor of astronomy at the ...

Earth spins as it orbits the Sun, and the solar system is orbiting the galactic center. So, if I go outside and look up, in ...

The love story between Pluto and Charon may have started with a kiss. A new study suggests the dwarf planet and its scarcely smaller moon likely came together in a collision that saw them conjoined ...

January's full Wolf Moon will make Mars vanish, but it's only temporary. Watch for the red planet's disappearing act from the ...

What is the moon phase today? Today, Jan. 5, 2025, the moon is 6 days old, in the Waxing Crescent phase of its lunar cycle. It is 36% illuminated. Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the ...

Some stargazers are calling it a planetary parade: Every other planet in our solar system can be seen in the sky tonight.

The Moon's relationship with Earth is crucial for stabilising our planet's axial tilt and influencing tides, but this still ...

29 at 7:36 a.m. EDT (1236 GMT). A new moon occurs when the moon is directly between Earth and the sun, with its shadowed side pointing towards us. You can see a new moon when it crosses the face ...

The Quadrantids’ radiant lies in the now-defunct constellation Quadrans Muralis, a region of the sky occupied by Boötes. It’s ...

Planets that form very close to their sun would be extremely hot ... Application to Close-in Exoplanets and the Early Earth-Moon System, arXiv (2024). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2412.07285 ...

Earth briefly hosted a 33-foot object, 2024 PT5, as a mini-moon. Scientists suggest it might be lunar debris from an ancient ...

Three launch systems and two landers from Boeing, SpaceX, and Blue Origin are all part of the complicated puzzle of NASA’s ...