Out past Neptune are countless small icy and rocky bodies called Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), and many of these have moons as well. While some TNOs could be called dwarf planets because of their ...

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Enjoy dark skies for evening observing, then catch a meteor shower and a planetary conjunction in the morning sky this week.

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“The moon’s orbit around the Earth is not perfect ... In the lead-up to the fall season, two eclipse events will grace the sky. A total lunar eclipse will be most visible from Europe, Africa ...

Despite decades of searching for this signal, astronomers have yet to find it. The problem is that our Earth is too noisy, making it nearly impossible to capture this whisper. The solution is to go to ...

The moon dims, the meteors fly, and the planets dance—these are the most exciting celestial events happening this month.

an earlier effort to send American astronauts back to the moon. “NASA struggled for years as a consequence,” Mr. Cruz said. As someone who has led two private astronaut flights to orbit ...

This is because April's full moon occurs when the moon is farthest from Earth in its orbit (known as apogee ... the moon rises at 7:30 p.m. EDT, just two minutes before sunset, offering a ...