View a brilliant morning star, enjoy dark skies during New Moon, and take in plenty of deep-sky targets in the sky this week.

For example, think of the Earth and the moon. We tend to assume that the latter orbits the former, but that’s not actually true. The Earth pulls at the moon, but the moon also pulls at the Earth ...

As of now the presence of phosphine on Venus remains unconfirmed. The largest planet in our solar system, Jupiter, has 95 moons as of 2024. The largest are the Galilean moons – Io, Europa, Ganymede ...

Did you know NASA is building a space station that orbits the Moon? This lunar outpost will fundamentally change what we know about our solar system and one day serve as a launch pad to Mars.

The new moon occurs April 27, and a day later Venus and Saturn will make a close approach to each other (known as a ...

Well, in the predawn hours of April 25 it literally will be thanks to a double conjunction that will see Saturn, Venus and ...

By contrast, Deimos is tiny, with a radius of 6 km, and quite a bit further out, more than 23,000 km from the surface. It is so small that, on the surface of Mars, Deimos would only appear about as ...

They are here! The Moons of Jupiter join the cast! Meet Ganymede, Europa, Callisto and Io as they... do stuff. Welcome to SolarBalls! Space animation filled with fun, entertaining animations that also ...

Scientists are using cutting-edge techniques to track water ice on the Moon—an essential resource for future space missions.

Concern is growing about the 130 million pieces of space debris orbiting Earth, as space exploration increases. Space researchers are advising that the debris needs to be cleaned up before the ...

Our sun, like all stars, is made mostly of hydrogen and helium. They are by far the most abundant elements, formed in the early moments of the universe. But our star is also rich in other elements ...