"Astronomers will always assume a simple model unless there is overwhelming evidence that this simple model is flawed." ...

A famous illustration of Saturn's moon Titan got it all wrong. Never mind -- what we imagine space to be, and what we know it ...

A new study implies that in the past, moons in our solar system may have had rings just like planets do — deepening the ...

But Earth wasn't the only target; the moon is regularly bombarded with such meteors, and Daichi Fujii, the curator of the Hiratsuka City Museum in Japan, has captured some of the most recent ...

An astronomer based in Japan has captured the moment when an unknown object – believed to be a meteor, and possibly one of the Geminids – struck part of the Moon. The Geminids – first ...

As a high school student, studying physics in a classroom wasn’t enough for Curtis Szajkovics. So, he and fellow science ...

On Monday night you may have a chance to witness the moon obscuring the Red Planet at its brightest, as well as a comet’s ...

Sanctuary on the Moon’ is a lunar time capsule that provides a detailed guide to life on Earth for our future selves.

The WNYC science program “Radiolab” partnered with the International Astronomical Union to solicit nearly 3,000 submissions.

In this episode, Dave Eicher invites you to observe the nearly full Moon as it passes Mars on the evening of December 17. Both objects closely follow the Sun’s apparent path through the stars ...

However, as these planets make their way across the sky in this "parade", Mars is expected to suddenly disappear, due to it passing directly behind the full moon. Stock image of Mars (main ...

Stargazers across India are in for a treat tonight as three celestial bodies, the Moon, Venus, and Saturn, aligned in a rare ...