The new moon occurs on June 25. A day later, Mercury reaches its highest point in the evening sky, and on June 27, the young ...

Stargazers in the U.S. will find the slender form of the crescent moon roughly 20 degrees above the western horizon right at ...

Jupiter will be too close to the sun to see Tuesday, but it will move farther out in the dawn sky and on Aug. 12 will have a ...

Mercury is notoriously difficult to see from Earth, thanks to its proximity to the Sun. But on July 4, Mercury reaches its ...

The crescent Moon lies in Taurus near the planet Uranus. You can easily spot the distant ice giant with binoculars or a small ...

What processes during the formation of Pluto's largest moon, Charon, potentially led to it having cryovolcanism, and even an ...

Despite being covered in impact craters that could potentially send pieces of the planet into space, we have never found a ...

Earth is no longer at risk of a direct collision with the asteroid 2024 YR4, but an impact on the moon in 2032 could send ...

But astronomers now say that that science is telling them the asteroid will most likely miss Earth. But our planet is not ...

Over the last few years, the term "Goldilocks zone" has come to be widely used to describe the range of distances from a star ...

An asteroid the size of a 10-story building could now make impact with the moon, which would global communications and ...