Jupiter’s moon Callisto passes near the planet’s northern limb, shortly before Io transits and Ganymede emerges from the gas ...

A bright Moon dominates the sky, passing two bright stars as Juno reaches opposition and Mercury dips toward the horizon in ...

"Rings are mostly made of ice and small rocks," said William Saunders, a planetary scientist at NASA's Langley Research ...

So which planets in our solar system have rings? All four giant planets — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — sport these ...

"We suggest that the processes which formed the lunar maria several billion years ago are still present and active today." ...

At the time, the Earth would have been far closer to the moon than it is today, making it perhaps twice as large in the lunar ...

The result may have been comparable to Jupiter's moon Io, the most volcanic body in the solar system. Early in the history of the solar system, a massive protoplanet plowed into a young Earth.

As dusk falls on Monday, 12 May, sky-watchers will witness May’s full moon rising in the east. Known as the Flower Moon, it will shine brightly all night and set in the west by dawn. Even on ...

SINGAPORE - On May 13, skywatchers in Singapore can catch a glimpse of the second and final micro full moon of 2025 – the Flower Moon – weather permitting. According to astronomy website ...

The next full moon is at 3:44 am EST (7:44 UTC) on Wednesday, June 11, and is known as the Strawberry Moon. The full moon has been a source of fascination, from precipitating werewolf ...

It’s not every day that a space relic comes home. But this week, a forgotten Soviet spacecraft finally ended its long wait. After more than five decades in orbit, Kosmos 482 has returned to ...