I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also applies to northern hemisphere mid-northern ...
If everything goes according to plan, in just over two years we should see humans back on the Moon. That has been the goal of ...
The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...
NASA still views the moon as a stepping stone to Mars, even though Elon Musk has dismissed Earth's nearest neighbor as "a ...
Exciting February sky events include Venus at its brightest and closest to Earth, the moon occulting the Pleiades, and a ...
Skywatchers on Thursday evening, Feb. 6, will notice an eye-catching pairing-off between two of the brightest objects in the ...
February's full Snow Moon will have a royal companion as it rises alongside Regulus, a star nicknamed "Heart of the Lion", ...
Astrophysicists Reveal Structure of 74 Exocomet Belts Orbiting Nearby Stars in Landmark Survey ... the puzzle of the formation of the Moon and water on Earth. The prevailing theory was that ...
February's full Moon is known as the Snow Moon, after the heavy snowfall often associated with this time of year in the ...
On February 14, spot the Beehive Cluster (M44), a group of about 1,000 stars that shines brightly in the constellation Cancer ...