Spica is a binary star system located 250 light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo. The waxing gibbous moon will ...

New research suggests there may be a narrow window of possibility for life to persist on the icy moons of the outer solar ...

Venus continues to be the brilliant “Morning Star” in the East before dawn, albeit dimming just a bit as it moves away from ...

As it travels, the Moon’s shape – or phase – alters as different amounts of its surface are lit up by the Sun’s rays, Nigel ...

An eclipse like this happens when the Moon, Earth and Sun all align so that the Moon is ... there are some bright stars you can see in our early spring sky. Here’s the rundown from the latest ...

In the Northern Hemisphere, June 20 is the day on which the sun is highest in the sky, aka the summer solstice! This is the ...

Two days later, the just-past-full moon will occult the star Antares. Moons are full when they are on the opposite side of Earth from the sun, and fully illuminated (from the point of view of Earth).

New images that are the highest resolution ever taken of the surface of the sun and its corona are revealing details that ...

Simulations show that the stars’ tug could send Mercury, Venus or Mars crashing into Earth — or let Jupiter eject our world from the solar system.

An illustration of the new moon of May 2025 near the sun on May 27 ... of its orbit that is receding from Earth. It is still ...

Since March, Venus has been visible in the morning sky, just east of sunrise. But the planet's greatest elongation, when it ...