Earth, between sweltering Venus and frozen Mars, formed and orbits within a band where water could persist in solid, liquid, and gaseous phases. Mars had surface water, but not as much as Earth, and ...

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Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock, space engineer and presenter of TV’s the Sky at Night, has an unusual retirement plan in mind – in ...

Watch for the Taurid and Leonid meteor showers this weekend. Sky & Telescope reporter Kelly Beatty says we should also keep an eye out for Venus and Mercury in the night sky.

With the final supermoon of the year and the peak of one of the most famous meteor shower displays, this weekend will be ...

On November 15, 1988, a 300-foot radio telescope in Green Bank, West Virginia suddenly collapsed. It happened at 9:46 p.m. on a clear night with no strong winds. When the observatory staff showed up ...

The Arecibo Message as it appears when its 1,679 bits are properly aligned on a grid (left), an annotated illustration ...

You can watch the full moon rise live from Italy, in a free livestream courtesy of astronomer Gianluca Masi of the Virtual ...

This Friday night will be clear, so I highly encourage you to go out and look to the east as the moon rises. It will have ...

Children’s books usually show a moon rising at night, but the moon rises in the sky at night only half of the time. The rest ...

The Full Super Moon occults the Pleiades, the ice giant Uranus reaches opposition, and the Leonid meteor shower peaks in the ...

NASA selects two proposals for missions to observe X-ray and far-infrared wavelengths of light from space for additional ...