As of Wednesday, July 23, the moon phase is Waning Crescent, and it is almost completely hidden to us on Earth. The moon will only be 2% visible to us tonight, according to NASA's Daily Moon ...

After years of research and hard work, the TRACERS spacecraft, a duo satellite project, is set to launch on Wednesday from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The project is led by University ...

The TRACERS mission, the University of Iowa's largest externally funded research project, will take off on Tuesday, July 22.

Both teams releasing papers detected the object independently, using different sets of data. Both teams found the same ...

The crescent moon will shine close to the gas giant Jupiter in the morning sky on July 23, with its shadow-veiled disk softly lit by sunlight reflected off Earth's surface, a ghostly effect known as ...

The celestial body's unusual orbit “implies that something extraordinary occurred" in the early days of the solar system—and ...

The University of Iowa led NASA TRACERS mission launches today around 1 p.m. Here's how to tune in online or at a Iowa City ...

Astronomers have discovered "Ammonite," a mysterious object on the solar system’s edge whose unusual orbit challenges current ...

Earth's famous Hubble Telescope has just revealed the first images of a mysterious interstellar object racing through our solar system and scientists now know what it is.

The two objects make for a strange pair. Unlike Betelgeuse, which is approaching the end of its life, the blue-white ...

To study this merger, scientists had to use advanced models that account for how fast-spinning black holes behave—a ...

Typically, telescopes are synonymous with bringing far-off objects close, but the newest member of the solar system was discovered using wide-field imaging. The Subaru Telescope has spotted a distant ...