In 2020, astronomers detected WD 1856+534 b, a gas giant that orbits a star 81 light-years from Earth. This exoplanet, which ...

In a memorable image from the 1977 film “Star Wars,” the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the horizon on his desert planet Tatooine. Astronomers since then indeed have ...

Sauk Prairie will get a glimpse of one of the two eclipses that will occur over the next thirty days. The total solar eclipse ...

Witness the spectacular and destructive consequences of a collision between the solar system's two largest planets.

Second, during the waxing phases, the angle the moon makes to the sun opens up wider and wider, exposing more of the moon to sunlight. That causes the crescent to wax thicker and brighter. The more ...