The south polar region of Mars When it was shared: Jan. 29, 2025 Why it's so special: These odd, fan-like features on the surface of Mars are geysers of gas and dust near the planet's south pole that ...

A new telescope could launch as early as late February. SPHEREx will look into deep space and also search for organic ...

According to NASA, four to five planets being visible across the sky at the same time happens only once every few years.

The planet was originally identified two years earlier by Oxford University scientist Dr Michael Cretignier. The new findings ...

There's a new race in space, but it's not where you might think. It's happening close to home – in the nearest bit of space, ...

There are two types of eclipses - a lunar eclipse, when Earth's shadow obscures the moon and a solar eclipse, which takes place when the Moon blocks the sun from view, according to NASA.

YR4, the asteroid has a 2.2% chance of hitting our planet on December 22, 2032, according to the European Space Agency.

(THE CONVERSATION) The NASA project NEOWISE, which has given astronomers a detailed view of near-Earth objects – some of which could strike the Earth – ended its mission and burned on reentering the ...

Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but with a telescope you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

For those playing along at home, space looks dark, even though the Sun is out there because the near-vacuum conditions don't ...