The Moon waxes from First Quarter to Full as we celebrate the summer solstice and catch a plethora of planets in the sky this ...

NASA has set its sights on the Moon, aiming to send astronauts back to the lunar surface by 2026 and establish a long-term ...

Astronomers widely accept that the universe formed in the Big Bang approximately 13.8 billion years ago. It has been ...

The next Full Moon in 2024 is at 9:08 pm. ET on Friday, June 21, and is called the Strawberry Moon. It's the sixth Full Moon ...

A hypothesis has been around for 60 years that part of Stonehenge aligns with moonrise and moonset during a major lunar ...

If you are lucky enough to stand in the center of Stonehenge on the summer solstice, you will see the Sun rise over the Heel ...

More than 80 researchers worked together to study an “artificial meteor” – NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Bennu sample return capsule.

This powerful piece of equipment performs two essential functions for successful imaging: precise alignment and accurate ...

The phenomenon of a Full Moon arises when our planet, Earth, is precisely sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon. This alignment ensures the entire side of the Moon that faces us gleams under ...

In early 2022, then-Ph.D. student Adomas Valantinas was at the University of Bern, sorting thousands of images of Mars ...

The short answer is yes: When two black holes merge, the resulting black hole has both more mass and a larger diameter. How ...

The seventh Starmus Festival took place May 12–17 in Bratislava, Slovakia, and was a smashing success all around. Starmus stands for stars and music, and this celebration has grown into the ...