Wausau Pilot & Review Central Wisconsin skywatchers can look forward to a dynamic week of celestial events, from the official ...

JWST has confirmed Pluto’s bizarre atmospheric behavior and its ghostly interaction with Charon. These findings could reshape ...

In Feb. 2021, the DSCOVR satellite's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) captured the moon transit the Earth. Credit: ...

The Tianwen-2 probe has sent a self-portrait as it heads toward one of the most enigmatic objects in our space neighborhood: ...

Keep an eye out for June’s full strawberry moon, which will appear low in the Northern Hemisphere, as well as the Milky Way ...

A spectacular double planetary conjunction is set to grace the night skies in late June 2025, offering rare and vivid views of Mars, Mercury, and the Moon to skywatchers across the globe. According to ...

This month's night sky is filled with close-range meteors, swirling nebulas, and prime stargazing conditions. Here’s when you ...

This cataclysmic event changed our planet and threw enough material ... “If we found an oxygen isotope difference between the Moon and the Earth, it would imply that the impact that formed ...

The final stages of building full planets stretched even longer ... and lunar meteorites reveal striking similarities between Earth and the moon. For instance, oxygen isotopes in both bodies ...

Oxygen isotope identity of the Earth and Moon with implications for the formation of the Moon and source of volatiles. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2024; 121 (52) DOI: 10.1073 ...

and the second half draws a line between planets and stars. By this definition, the Earth would be a planet — and so would the moon and Pluto. Sign up for the Live Science daily newsletter now ...

Credit: ESA - P.Carril A car-sized asteroid will pass at about half the distance between Earth and the moon tonight (Dec ... away from our planet and will be bright enough to be visible in ...