Saturn is below Venus and very low in the predawn sky. In late April it is five degrees above the horizon. You may need ...

Hundreds of thousands of Olive ridley turtles nest on beaches along India's eastern coast. They need a stretch of unhindered ...

Bring a telescope, or just your naked eye, and you’ll be able to see constellations like Orion’s Belt and gasp at the ... old mining towns back on the map. To experience one of the best ...

At the start of March, Mercury and Venus lay in the west after sunset. Now both have passed between us and the Sun into the ...

You’ve probably heard of Orion’s Belt or the Big Dipper ... feeling a lot less random and a lot more like an old, familiar map. All you need to get started with stargazing is a clear night ...

Stargazers often recognize Orion by its bright belt of three stars. According to this study ... Rock layers record chapters of Earth’s story, while star surveys map out the galaxy’s shifting puzzle.

Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...

Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...

"We now have the first outlines of a geologic map of the asteroid belt." Ten years ago, Jenniskens teamed up with astronomer Hadrien Devillepoix of Curtin University and colleagues in Australia to ...