The moon will rise with Venus and the ice giant Neptune in the pre-dawn sky on Thursday, May 22.

Our satellite is a little off-balance. GRAIL data show a mass asymmetry of a few percent between its near and far sides.

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At least three city-killing asteroids that could strike Earth are hiding behind our closest neighbor in the solar system.

These AI-powered smart binoculars provide crisp views of the sky and wildlife. But are they any good for stargazing?

Scientists Stunned to Find a Secret Ocean World Deep Beneath the Ice in the Asteroid Belt Between Mars and Jupiter Tucked ...

Astronomers have long been intrigued by the makeup of the asteroid belt’s largest body. When it was first spotted in 1801, ...

Can Mars become a second Earth? Explore the science, challenges, and future of terraforming Mars for human colonization.

The large golden aura is formed from the incoming light reflected off the sun-side of the occulter, a device that blocks the ...

There have been proposed hypotheses as to how the Moon could have developed a core dynamo. For instance, a 2022 analysis ...

A groundbreaking new supercomputer model shows how magnetic fields shape the turbulent flow of charged particles in space.

Using computer simulations, the researchers uncovered a scenario in which an ancient asteroid impact briefly amplified that field, just long enough for nearby rocks to capture and record its magnetic ...