Use telescopes and binoculars to observe a crescent moon, Jupiter as a 'Christmas star', star clusters and more — now is a great time to go night sky viewing.
Astronomers discovered the 40,000th near-Earth asteroid, taking the tally to 40,155 per NASA (as of the first week of ...
Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, hides an alien world beneath its thick orange haze. From vast seas of liquid methane to ...
Now, researchers at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and the Abdus Salam International ...
From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...
How different would life be if Earth had massive planetary rings? This video imagines the breathtaking skies, the shifts in ...
A new study of the data sent back by the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn points to the moon Titan not having a global water ...
Sky watchers are in for a treat on Christmas Eve as the waxing crescent Moon, Jupiter, and Saturn create a stunning celestial ...
On Dec. 21, 1968, NASA’s Apollo 8 mission launched to the moon. Apollo 8 was the second crewed mission in NASA’s Apollo ...
The last major lunar event of the year takes place December 20, 2025—the New Moon in Sagittarius heralds the darkest night of ...
For years, scientists thought Saturn’s moon Titan hid a global ocean beneath its frozen surface. A new look at Cassini data ...
December not only brings holiday festivities, but also the start of Capricorn season. Learn more about the traits that define ...