Earth has a number of mini-moons and quasi-moons. Mini-moons are objects that orbit our planet. But they make for fickle fans: They tend to swing around Earth for only a matter of months. One example ...

Earth has a new friend — and it's been waiting for us to notice it for decades. In a new study published in the journal ...

Every year, the moon, Earth's reliable celestial companion for 4.5 billion years, is getting 1.5 inches away. The distance to ...

This weekend, Saturn will be brighter in our sky than at any point going back to April of 2010, just after it reached opposition in March of that year. Then, for each opposition after this, the planet ...

A distant exoplanet might have an atmosphere similar to Earth's, early observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST ...

New and Selected Poems," the former U.S. poet laureate reflects on nature, poetry and the awe she continues to find in both.

Day and night will get equal time for a brief moment as the equinox arrives. The Earth will experience about the same amount of day and night on Monday when the autumnal equinox arrive. From ...

Roughly every 378 days, Saturn swings into opposition, appearing up to 30% brighter and staying visible from dusk until dawn. The night sky is full of quiet wonders, but once a year Saturn steps into ...

The current methods for attitude determination are Star Trackers, sun sensors, magnetometers, and gyroscopes. We would like ...

The fall equinox is a significant event in any tipped planet's life. Seasons are caused by a planet's tilted axis. Those which orbit the sun standing nearly straight up and down with little to no ...

Sigur Rós are a millennial band in the truest sense — not because they are inordinately popular with millennials compared to other demographics, though that might be somewhat true. Rather, Ágætis ...

In Dark Horse Comics' January 2025 solicits, a new Witcher #1, Touched By A Demon, Tomb Raider: Sacred Artifacts #1 and a new ...