Hinks Elementary students listened to a special presentation about outer space from Rodney Bisher inside STARLAB, an ...
Earth crosses through Saturn’s “ring plane,” making the gas giant’s most iconic feature become nearly invisible ...
The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...
The alignment only happens at special times, and that’s because the orbit of the Moon around the Earth is slanted with ...
A case in point: a European Space Agency satellite, known as ERS-2, launched in 1995 and inactive since 2011, tumbled through ...
In late 2024, astronomers spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 on a trajectory that could potentially threaten Earth. This observation ...
There are plenty of weird things floating around in space and black holes may be the weirdest. They've certainly sparked and stretched our imaginations.
The vernal equinox arrives on Thursday, marking the start of the spring season for the Northern Hemisphere and the fall in ...
Saturn's rings tilt out of view every fourteen to seventeen Earth years. In 2032, they will be at their best again during ...
Venus will pass between the Earth and sun during what’s called an inferior conjunction. But don’t plan on seeing the linkup.
The orbit Venus takes around the sun results in an inferior conjunction as it transitions from appearing in the evening sky ...