The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life ...
Future moonwalkers will need to take advantage of new spacesuit designs, including updated footwear, to accomplish their tasks.
Venus, Jupiter, and Mars dominate the sky. Catch your last views of Saturn as early in the month, the Moon passes in front of ...
The Moon meets the Red Planet’s rival in Scorpius, skims close to Saturn, and reaches New phase in the sky this week.
Look carefully at the phase — it should be exactly 50 percent lit ... given here have omitted the decimal point. Credit: Astronomy: Roen Kelly; 2020 AAVSO Mars comes closest to Earth this ...
Today, the Doomsday Clock was set to 89 seconds to midnight, signaling that experts fear we are dangerously close to a global ...
Observatories in Chile’s Atacama Desert, including the world’s largest optical telescope, could be blinded by light pollution ...
I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also applies to northern hemisphere mid-northern ...
officially registered the new space rock Jan. 2, saying it was spotted hurling through the final frontier roughly 150,000 miles from Earth, according to Astronomy magazine. Its distance was closer ...
Carved by a colossal impact some 3.9 billion years ago, the 460-mile-wide (740 ... The lander will then coast for 50 minutes as its terrain-relative navigation system calculates altitude, rate ...
Christmas is a great time to look for a telescope for your budding amateur astronomer. But there are some things to keep in ...