While Saturn has been visible in the night sky all of September, this weekend, the ringed planet will shine its brightest.

Every 378 days, Saturn swings into opposition, bringing it closer, brighter, and nearly 10 times easier to observe than at ...

A truly majestic sky sight last month was a close pairing of the two brightest planets, Venus and Jupiter, at dawn Aug. 12.

Experts say that now is the best time to look up if you want to see a bigger and brighter view of Saturn and its rings. Find ...

We've been many months without a bright planet in the night sky, but that's all about to change! On the night of Sunday, Sept. 21, the ringed planet Saturn officially returns to the evening sky, and ...

In March 1968, the Soviet Union had a partial success with Zond 4. With this launch, they were able to take the spacecraft out to lunar distances (though not around the Moon) even if navigation system ...

Front-loaded productivity, softer evening. Work the day; coast the night. Sky note (PDT)• Moon: Cancer until a VOC from 8:13 pm to 10:19 pm, then Leo after 10:19 pm. Plan […] ...

Assistant Professor Xinting Yu from the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UT San Antonio) is one of the two recipients of the 2025 Harold C. Urey Prize.

A protein historian and evolutionary biochemist found that a protein sequence present across all known life didn’t form as ...

The questions of how humankind came to be, and whether we are alone in the universe, have captured imaginations for millennia . But to answer these ...

A recently observed object called 2025 PN7 was found orbiting near the Earth. The quasi-moon is expected to accompany our planet in a similar orbit for 60 years.

Curiosity Point 1: A catastrophic event turned Venus into a hellish world?