The moon dims, the meteors fly, and the planets dance—these are the most exciting celestial events happening this month.

If you’re trying to cheat death on Mercury, this is very promising, but the news gets even better. Mercury's Solar Day is ...

For the better part of a century, we believed there were nine planets in our solar system, with Pluto being the farthest from the sun. Since the discovery of more Pluto-sized dwarf planets, that ...

From our POV on Earth, it seems like Mercury is slowing down and moving backward in its orbit (even though, from the Sun’s POV, it’s obviously not). In astrology, Mercury rules over things like ...

Some wise prophets (on Twitter) once said, “Mercury is in the microwave.” And although they weren’t one hundred percent correct with their use of astrological jargon, they captured the gist ...

By the year 2100, the “satellite carrying capacity” of the most popular low-orbit regions could decline by 50 to 66 percent due to the impacts of these emissions, according to the study ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — New modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about 150 million years ago when a larger parent asteroid broke apart; its orbit and spin ...

Climate change is already causing all sorts of problems on Earth, but soon it will be making a mess in orbit around the planet too, a new study finds. Part of the greenhouse effect that warms the ...

The X-37B launched on Mission 7 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Dec. 29, 2023, riding a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket into a highly elliptical orbit around Earth. During the mission ...