NASA shares images of comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) near the sun and stunning photos from Jupiter and Mars missions.

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...

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The four bright planets — Venus, Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars — are already visible in ... To top it off you might also catch a comet at the same time near the two planets. Uranus and Neptune ...

Mars in 2024 was the site of the sad end of a machine that lived far beyond expectations. On January 18, NASA's Ingenuity ...

Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars will appear to line up and be bright enough to see with the naked eye in the first few hours ...

Former Purdue professor Jay Melosh has had his legacy honored in the form of a crater being named after him on the surface of Mars.

Because the period of an object does not depend on its mass, comets’ orbital periods remain unchanged due to mass loss.

Did you know that Mars at opposition is a special time when Earth and Mars are closest? This happens when Earth passes directly between Mars and the Sun. At this point, Mars appears larger and ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit has snapped a striking shot of the super-bright comet racing past our planet for the first time in ...

Jan. 21, 2025 — Astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of WASP-127b, a giant exoplanet. Reaching speeds up to 33,000 km/h, the winds make up the fastest jet ...

Jan. 17, 2025 — The Universe really seems to be expanding fast. Too fast, even. A new measurement confirms what previous -- and highly debated -- results had shown: The Universe is expanding ...