For a brief, but exciting, time last year, Earth had two moons. A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit ...

From west to east, Saturn, Venus, Neptune, Uranus, Jupiter and Mars will make an arc across Wyoming’s night sky in a parade of planets Friday and ...

With 2024 receding into the distance, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is already deep into a busy 2025. Early in the new year, the Eaton Fire came close to JPL, destroying the homes of more than 200 ...

The sun’s light exerts a tiny force called “solar radiation pressure” on objects in space. Lightweight human-made debris, ...

To put the wind speeds into perspective, the fastest winds ever observed in our solar system are on Neptune, at a speed of ...

In Earth's upper atmosphere, a fast-moving band of air called the jet stream blows with winds of more than 275 miles (442 km) ...

The Keeble Observatory at Randolph-Macon College will resume public viewing after the holidays when students return to campus ...

Nasa said that the purple space lumps surrounding the planet are massive clouds of X-rays. Some of these lumps are even ...

But what about Venus, one of Earth’s closest neighbors, or planets and moons even farther away? Scientists and space agencies ...

This month offers incredible views of six planets, including Venus-Saturn conjunction. See the dates for all of 2025's ...