Understand the moon phases and you can wager a pretty good guess for when the next full moon is no matter where we are in the ...

Lunar Trailblazer's voyage to the Moon will take between four and seven months, de-pending on the day it launches. This orbital diagram shows the low-energy transfer trajectory of the NASA mission ...

We're probably still safe from this space rock, but at the moment, the chances of having a very bad encounter in 2032 have ...

In May 2024, an epic solar storm rattled Earth so powerfully that its effects were felt even at the bottom of the ocean.

And of course, Mars requires longer to orbit the sun than the Earth does. All of this is taken into account in a common type of diagram called the "pork chop plot", which essentially tells you the ...

Scientists reveal the discovery of two new temporary radiation belts encircling the Earth created by a massive solar storm in ...

When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly ... the Sun must have been less than 20 AU (1 AU is the distance between the Earth and the Sun). If ...

British philosopher Bertrand Russell said of the difference between our physical world experience and the scientific world of continually changing matter, “There is … some conflict between what common ...

This month's Letter From The Editor dives into how you can get the most out of this season of loving and caring.

Possibly one of the best-known constellations in the northern sky, Ursa Major—or the Great Bear—contains an asterism of seven ...

The Sentinel-2A Earth observation satellite has been given a 12-month “exceptional and temporary” reprieve from retirement.