When a celestial body, such as a moon, planet or an asteroid passes in front of another celestial body, blocking its view, we call that an occultation. The word is derived from the Latin occultäre, to ...

Scientists observed that all examined craters are situated within 30 degrees of the equator. This concentrated impact area, ...

Of all the astronomical objects visible in a telescope, none has captured human imagination more than the planet Saturn. Since it is easily visible to the unaided eye, humans have seen it since the ...

Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space ...

Venus is the brilliant evening “star” now shining at magnitude -4 in the southwest at dusk. In early November—five months after its passage behind the sun at superior conjunction on June 4—Venus ...

The new moon of November 2024 occurs on Nov. 1, and three days later the moon will make a close pass to Venus in the evening ...

Venus is the brilliant evening “star” now shining at magnitude -4 in the southwest at dusk. In early November—five months ...

The giant planet J1407b has been a weird space mystery since its discovery in 2010. But a new study revealed something about the planet that may help explain at least part of its weirdness: a ...

You may need binoculars or a telescope for this one. It includes the three furthest planets in our solar system.

But in one of these piles of lost memories, a small, inconspicuous velvet black box was discovered with a ring and a note that ... some time as far as the clean up and collections (of debris ...

York University professors John E. Moores and Jesse Rogerson allow you to imagine yourself as an astronaut in the solar ...

Pocock, who has worked on the JWST, catalogues the science behind its most stunning images in her new book, Webb's Universe. Here's her pick of the telescope’s best shots ...