From the night of September 7 to the early morning of September 8, 2025, a spectacular total lunar eclipse will occur, ...

That may be about to change: NASA is preparing a brand new mission that will travel 1 million miles away from Earth in order to map the boundaries of the heliosphere, offering clues to scientists ...

During the equinox, the sun crosses Earth’s equator, heading south. Earth’s axis is tilted neither toward nor away from the sun.

In 2029, asteroid Apophis will skim safely past Earth, where it will be visible to billions. For scientists, it's a once-in-a ...

The full "Corn Moon" is coming on Sunday, Sept. 7. In Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia, it will be a total lunar eclipse. The eclipse is known as the "Blood Moon" MILWAUKEE - A few times a year, the ...

The formation of Saturn's rings is an astronomical mystery. Saturn formed about 4.6 billion years ago, but the rings may have existed for only 100 million to 400 million years, making them much ...

Researchers in Germany have developed a ring laser that tracks Earth's axis movements without telescopes or satellites.

As Earth moves through space, it wobbles slightly. A team of researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the University of Bonn has now succeeded in measuring these fluctuations in ...

As the Earth moves through space, it wobbles slightly. A team of researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the University of Bonn has now succeeded in measuring these fluctuations ...

A coronagraph is used to study the sun, but recently NOAA's instruments caught the moon as well. To study the sun, scientists use a specialized telescope called a coronagraph. This instrument mimics a ...

NASA's Psyche captured images of Earth and our Moon from about 180 million miles (290 kilometers) away in July 2025. NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU The Psyche spacecraft is on a six-year journey to reach a ...

An artificial intelligence model trained on NASA satellite imagery can forecast what the sun will look like hours into the future – even predicting the appearance of solar flares that may warn of ...