Here’s a little spoiler for next month’s Cosmic Calendar: early May will see the return of the Eta Aquarid meteor shower. The ...

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles ...

A solar eclipse occurs when the moon is positioned between Earth and the sun and casts a shadow over Earth. Solar eclipses only occur during a new moon phase, usually about twice a year ...

Scientists have hypothesized since the 1960s that the sun is a source of ingredients that form water on the moon. When a ...

A new machine learning model has ... nearest star system to Earth, announcing four worlds. A red dwarf star in the constellation Ophiuchus, just six light-years from the solar system, Barnard ...

Solar Cells Made of Moon ... System of Two Exoplanets Mar. 14, 2025 — Astronomers have discovered two exoplanets around TOI-1453, a star about 250 light years away. These two exoplanets, a super ...

New research suggests meteor showers are so unpredictable due to the Sun’s own motion around the solar‑system barycenter.

Unlike a total solar eclipse, part of the sun is still visible during a partial solar eclipse, so there is no darkening of the sky or visible solar corona.

On Saturday, the moon will cast its shadow on Earth’s surface ... our place in the solar system. During the eclipse, the moon will appear to take a bite out of the sun, but how much varies ...

Multiple spacecraft captured the moon's shadow sweeping across North America at more than 1,500 mph during the 2024 total ...

A partial solar eclipse is when the moon comes between the Earth and the sun, casting a shadow on our planet without fully blocking out the sun. The moon will produce a striking crescent sun at ...