Japan's Himawari-8 and Himawari-9 satellites, designed to study weather here on Earth, have also been quietly collecting ...

August 2025 promises longer nights filled with breathtaking celestial events, from the stunning Perseid Meteor Shower to a ...

A controversial new study claims that a ‘hostile’ alien spacecraft could attempt to attack Earth in November. Scientists say ...

Venus Williams, won her first singles match in more than a year at age 45, has highlighted the phenomenon of older athletes ...

See Venus, Aldebaran and the moon form a triangle in the dawn sky this weekend. Look east before sunrise for this colorful celestial trio.

In an unexpected discovery, two weather satellites designed to monitor Earth’s atmosphere have ended up capturing valuable ...

Mars remains an evening fixture, Saturn is nearing opposition, and Venus and Jupiter meet in the predawn sky Aug. 12.

August brings Saturn and Neptune together, offers two shadow transits of Titan, and sees a conjunction of Venus and Jupiter.

Mercury begins to emerge from the dawn glow after Aug. 12. On Aug. 19, Mercury reaches its greatest elongation west of the ...

Mars has a cold, desert-like climate with a thin atmosphere that supports extreme temperature variations, from highs of 68 °F ...

In August, skies darken in the north and stay long in the south, offering ideal views of meteor showers, planetary alignments ...

Aug. 12-13 — Peak of the annual Perseid meteor shower. Perseids are fragments shed by comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle. Every August, ...