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The moon is set to put on a show for star-gazers early Tuesday morning, appearing alongside Venus, Mercury and Mars. A very thin crescent moon will appear low in the sky next to Mercury, Mars and ...
September’s Full Corn Moon is eclipsed for some observers, Titan passes behind Saturn, and Mars moves north of Spica in the ...
The much-hyped planetary alignment of June may not have been the jaw-dropping naked-eye spectacle some made it out to be, but it still made for some stunning astrophotography. Josh Dury of Somerset, ...
The full moon's rise will be followed by appearances from Saturn, Mars, and Jupiter in the sky overnight, according to Space.com. Unfortunately, Venus will likely be lost in the solar glare. The three ...
Snapchat Planets is a new element introduced in Snapchat Plus, the premium service designed to elevate the social experience. Yes, if you are wondering whether it’s related to the solar system then ...
A team led by scientists at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Colorado made 10 different 40-minute exposures of ...
A new paper from Harvard's sometimes controversial physicist Avi Loeb has suggested that if we want to find advanced alien life, "black hole moons" may be the object to search for. Finding advanced ...
This was an unexpected and coincidental discovery of a small, icy, egg-shaped planet in the outermost reaches of our solar ...