Spring “arrives” either on February 2 on on March 21, depending on whether you subscribe to the folk-legend of Groundhog Day ...

A POWERFUL telescope floating in space has discovered an extremely rare Einstein ring of light around a nearby galaxy. The ...

"Our Sun (Sol) is marked by a black hexagon, and its orbital path is indicated by a grey solid line (top row only). Alpha Centauri's location and path are shown by a yellow star and a solid blue line ...

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...

Photographers have been sharing their photographs of Comet G3 (ATLAS), which burned bright during January in the southern ...

Our solar system is made up of nine planets with Earth the third closest to the Sun. But each planet has its own quirks, so find out more about them all ...

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Intuitive Machines' second lunar lander will carry four mobile robots, including a hopper named Gracie, toward the moon when ...

As New Year’s Day fades, a young moon hangs in the southwest near Venus and Mars. And as the sun sets on the last day of ...

A rare dispute between New Zealand and Kiribati has renewed focus on the Pacific island nation, highlighting the existential ...

All the planets are moving in the same plane, like marbles rolling around on a plate. We live on the third ... right of the sun. Because Mercury and Venus—being the two planets closest to ...