The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

The space rock is heading in our direction at some 18,700 miles per hour, according to the space agency's data.

offering insights that could reshape our understanding of the Earth-Moon system and the broader solar system. The ... Dec. 18, 2024 — Scientists recently led a team that found, for the first ...

What is the moon phase today? Today, Feb. 12, 2025, the moon is 14 days old and is in the Full Moon phase of its lunar cycle. It is 99% illuminated. Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the ...

The impact on the oceans if the Moon disappeared would be much smaller tides, about one-third the size of what they are now.

At the end of 2024, astronomers detected an asteroid in the night sky. It was given the designation Y, since it was ...

Skywatchers on Thursday evening, Feb. 6, will notice an eye-catching pairing-off between two of the brightest objects in the ...

Next to Earth ... world in our solar system, currently home to a fleet of orbiters, landers and rovers. But above the red sands on which the rovers trundle, a strange moon rises twice each ...

NASA said the system is thought to be moving at least 1.2 million miler per hour, nearly twice as fast as our solar system.

February's full Snow Moon will have a royal companion as it rises alongside Regulus, a star nicknamed "Heart of the Lion", ...