An opportunity to see the moon occult a bright planet at night does not happen too often; for Mars, a specific location on Earth can see ... opposite to the sun in the sky. By sheer coincidence ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a unique image that revealed 44 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light ...

Our planet's elliptical orbit around the sun yields two occurrences per year in which we are closest and furthest from the sun. At 1:28pm on Saturday January 4th GMT (overnight in Australia), the ...

Americans will walk on the moon and Mars and in doing so, we will make life better here on Earth." In short, NASA is likely to adopt a two-lane strategy of reaching for both the moon and Mars.

Earth will reach perihelion at 09:00 Universal Time on Saturday, January 4, 2025, the closest point to the sun in its annual, slightly elliptical orbit. The word comes from the Greek words peri ...

And could the same happen over claims to the Moon’s resources ... of the solar system) and extract valuable minerals and metals, which would then be delivered back to Earth.

Additionally, asteroid 2 Pallas is in conjunction with the Sun at 3 ... 40° N 90° W. The Moon’s illumination is given at 12 P.M. local time from the same location. Earth reaches perihelion ...

At perihelion, Earth will be approximately 147 million kilometres from the Sun. The Sun will appear slightly ... to gravitational influences from the Moon and other celestial bodies.

Recent photos taken by India’s Space Research Organization moon orbiter, known as Chandrayaan 2, clearly show the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 landing sites more than 50 years later. The photos were ...

A massive coronal hole has formed in the sun's atmosphere, unleashing a powerful stream of solar wind toward Earth. Nearby, a second, slightly smaller coronal hole is also directing solar wind our ...

Get your binoculars out! On Saturday (Jan. 4), skywatchers in the U.K. and most of Western and Central Europe will be able to see Saturn vanish behind the crescent moon — an event known as a ...