Witness the first images of the September 2025 partial solar eclipse. The moon and sun put on a magnificent show on Sept. 21 ...

On Sept. 21-22, a partial solar eclipse will see the moon sweep over the sun's disk, blocking its light over a swathe of the ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Where do we come from? How did our planet form? How do we know about the history of our solar system? You can explore these universal questions in ...

About 4.6 billion years ago, our corner of space was basically just a boring cloud of gas and dust floating […] ...

In this curious film, a pair of friends venture out into the desert to build an accurate to scale model of our solar system.

Researchers are discussing 2025 PN7, a small celestial body that's following a similar orbital path to our planet's without being gravitationally tied to Earth ...

The sun is in its most active phase—solar summer—causing auroras and posing real risks to satellites, GPS, and power systems ...

The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as far as we know. But that doesn’t mean we don’t get visitors, most often in the form of (usually harmless) asteroids. Some even ...

8 to see the ringed gas giant Saturn shine close to the bright disk of the waning gibbous moon. Saturn will rise less than 5 degrees to the right of the 96%-lit lunar disk as the sun sets on Sept ...

Historical observations of the Moon's motion, dating back to ancient civilizations, played a crucial role in the development of timekeeping and calendar systems. The Moon's orbital cycle can be ...