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NASA’s Lucy spacecraft successfully flew past asteroid Donaldjohanson, collecting data and images of the second of its 11 ...
The night sky this week brings a first peek at the Lyrids Meteor Shower before its actual peak, plus planets including Venus, ...
Mars and Jupiter take center stage this month. Mars is visible high overhead after dark, shining bright and red as it moves ...
Catch two transits of Io, spot sparkling star clusters, and view Mars at aphelion while the April Full Moon lights the sky ...
Venus, Saturn, and Mercury are full of surprises this month, and they have one more awe-striking display in store. Before ...
The once-dubbed "city-killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 has surprised scientists with its 'unusual' shape as it rapidly rotates ...
How do you spot moons, and why hadn’t anybody seen these ones already ... Elsewhere in the Solar System, Earth has one moon, Mars has two, Jupiter has 95, Uranus has 28 and Neptune has 16 ...
Normally, Jupiter's powerful polar auroras inject significant heat into the gas giant's upper atmosphere near the poles. These spectacular lights resemble those seen on Earth, where they're ...
A Martian dust devil can be seen consuming a smaller one in a short video made of images taken by a navigation camera aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover. These swirling, sometimes towering columns ...
Mars. So, with the sun journeying through this fearless Fire sign, it’s time to push forward and embrace challenges with confidence and courage. Jupiter, on the other hand, is the planet of ...
Ask any astronaut about the pleasures of spending time aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and one of the responses will surely be the incredible views that they get to enjoy from 250 ...
you can catch a "mini planet parade" as Mars and Jupiter appear alongside a half-lit moon in the southwestern sky. All three bodies will be visible in the western sky at sunset tonight (April 5 ...