Learn about the solar system from a pair of real space museum curators in sci-fi game Elite Dangerous, as Abbie MacKinnon and ...

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

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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 ...

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

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

Ibn-al-shatir's lunar model from which Copernicus is reported to have borrowed in composing his cosmological model. Credit: ...

Cosmic Splendor,’ on view in NYC, features dazzling pieces from the brand's Sous les Étoiles high jewelry collection.

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

Led by Dr Felix Lang of the University of Potsdam, the research team focused on two unavoidable truths about future lunar life: Settlers will need a lot of solar power, and shipping bulky, Earth-made ...

This striking satellite footage shows the moon's shadow ... during a total solar eclipse, and 2024 was no exception. Many observers spotted pink or red spots around the sun's obscured disc.