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 ...

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

Up to 40% of the sun was covered as the moon passed between the sun and Earth, partly obscuring the ... way of experiencing the mechanics of the solar system for yourself," said Catherine Muller ...

The trans-Neptunian object Altjira, 44 times farther from the Sun than Earth is, could be the second known trinary, ...

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 ...

New research has revealed that the cosmological model developed by Nicolaus Copernicus, the renowned European Renaissance ...

During a partial solar eclipse, the moon moves between the sun and Earth, partially blocking our ... This is a nice box system, where the light is coming in through a simple telescope, hitting ...

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 ...

Originally, the hypothesis was that Theia gave the Earth a glancing blow, and the proto-Earth and Theia lost pieces ending up as one or two moons that eventually formed the Moon. It was thought that a ...

A new model has been developed to simulate interstellar activity within our solar system and the nearby Alpha Centauri system ...

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 ...