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

This week, NASA released the first image from the Europa Clipper spacecraft's voyage. The image is a mosaic of a star field, created from three shots the solar-powered orbiter captured in December of ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

For a brief, but exciting, time last year, Earth had two moons. A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit ...

With the Full Moon happening in Leo on February 12, Leos are definitely one of the main characters in February 2025. The Full ...

A waxing gibbous Moon stands 5° north of Jupiter in the 6th ... of stars as I searched for cluster NGC 1746 in Taurus. Main-belt asteroid 15 Eunomia beckons me to return to the wonderful lanes ...

Saturn is perhaps the best-known example, swathed by eight main rings made ... Saturn's "Death Star" moon Mimas, these moon rings were stable — particularly Jupiter’s Iapetus.

PT5, a near-Earth object discovered last year, has captivated scientists with its potential lunar origins. Likely ejected ...

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...

The closest of the asteroids to us—estimated to be about the size of a car—is whizzing through space at 27,358 miles per hour ...

Jupiter is bright and located high in the sky with only the moon and Venus being brighter than the king of the planets. A pair of 7×50 binoculars will show the four main moons of Jupiter looking ...

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...