The morning of April 24 will give rise to a striking mini-planetary parade, as Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Neptune, and Earth's ...

Just before dawn tomorrow, look up for a moment of cosmic joy. Rare cosmic events can feel like being smiled down upon from ...

An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has announced the ...

Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. It's about 11 times wider than Earth with an equatorial diameter of 88,846 ...

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

Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...

The Solar System consists of our star, the Sun, and everything bound to it by gravity; the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, along with dwarf planets like ...

A dazzling snapshot from ESO’s Paranal Observatory captures a rare sky parade — the Moon, a comet, and nearly every visible planet strung across the heavens. This celestial lineup is an optical ...

The internet has been abuzz with the possibility of sky watchers seeing a “smiley face” in the eastern sky above the horizon ...

In a rare and fleeting display early this morning, the skies offered a delightful surprise — a celestial ‘smiley face’ formed ...

Even though the moon, and planets of our solar system are all separated by hundreds ... April 27. Want to see Venus or the moon up close? The Celestron NexStar 4SE is ideal for beginners wanting ...

Sauk Prairie will get a glimpse of one of the two eclipses that will occur over the next thirty days. The total solar eclipse ...