In astronomy, an occultation is when a celestial body or object — like the moon or a planet — passes in front of a distant ...

"Recent studies suggest that the lunar farside experienced a magma ocean evolution similar to that of the nearside," the team ...

NASA’s newly launched IMAP mission is set to tell us more about the boundary between our Solar System and interstellar space ...

While the Perseverance rover continues to capture amazing images of the Martian surface, we also look back at Voyager 2's ...

Perihelion is the point at which an orbiting body is closest to the sun. The word comes from Greek and literally means around ...

Scientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences analyzed lunar soil and rock brought back from the far side by Chang’e-6 and ...

Finding new worlds out there is pretty exciting, right? Scientists are getting really good at spotting planets around other ...

Unveiling the Latest Spacenews Magazine Discoveries This issue of Spacenews Magazine is packed with some seriously cool ...

Planetary rings explained: composition, formation theories, and a comparison of Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune’s rings.

The sheer scale of Carrazco-Gaxiola’s survey, titled “An All-Sky Spectroscopic Reconnaissance of More Than 2,100 K Dwarfs ...

Stargazers will in one week have a chance to spot Saturn and the moon sharing a section of the night sky in what's known as a ...

Unfortunately for planet hunters, Mercury, Venus and Mars are all too close to the sun to observe; they will come out of the ...