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

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

The Keeble Observatory at Randolph-Macon College holds weekly public viewing during spring semester. Check their website ( or ...

Plus: A solar eclipse and an occultation of the Pleiades as our satellite skims through several constellations in the sky ...

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Prior to 2040, the last planetary quintuplet occurred in the year 1186, and according to Uptain, records show that the close ...

Preparing for a Criminal Crisis in Orbit" (Wiley, 2025). Taylor is director of the CSCPG. As they write in their newly published book, "we think the phenomenon will occur," and they offer ...

They tend to orbit elliptical paths around the sun, passing within sight of our telescopes years, decades or even centuries before any potential collision. Technology has, fortunately, come a long ...

Next week, Space X is launching a four-day mission to polar orbit in a SpaceX Dragon capsule that could unlock a new area in space for future spaceflights. X/@SpaceX Four space explorers will ...

With the drama around the first human spaceflight of the year behind it, SpaceX is back to the business of sending private customers to space. The Fram2 mission headed by a Chinese-born ...