On Mercury, craters are named after “artists, musicians, painters and authors who have made outstanding or fundamental ...

Venus will pass to the north of the much-fainter bluish star Regulus (in Leo, the Lion) on the morning of Sept. 19; the planet and star will appear low in the east-northeast predawn sky, separated by ...

The presence of a North Pole star is a coincidence that has saved lives and perhaps changed history, but is it shared across ...

It seems 2025 will have a strong start, too, with a planet parade just a few weeks into the new year. A planet parade is when ...

You have no doubt already heard about Mercury retrograde and the effects of this scary phenomenon. Now, whenever bad luck ...

The sun's most active phase, solar maximum, officially arrived in 2024, triggering some explosive solar storms and colorful ...

If you’d like to see all the planets of our solar system, this is a good week to do so. Step outside at dusk and you’ll notice the most obvious of planets ...

Between sightings of the aurora borealis, the solar eclipse, supermoons and plenty of other cool phenomena, there's been something in the sky to look at throughout 2024. It seems 2025 will have ...

In 2024, space exploration dazzled the world. The new year’s missions will expand humanity’s horizons even further.

In the wake of comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) in October, comet G3 is due to reach perihelion — its closest to the sun — ...

"The moment when we first looked at the MERTIS flyby data and could immediately distinguish impact craters was breathtaking!" ...