Recent studies have focused on various aspects of the Martian moons, including their surface composition ... and Deimos may have formed from the breakup of a larger ancestral moon, although ...

From January to March, the night sky will host a spectacular parade of planets featuring Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus ...

The Hubble Space Telescope completes a high-resolution portrait of our galaxy's gorgeous neighbor, which will help scientists better understand our Milky Way.

A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely called a "mini-moon," a nickname that was more ...

In August 2024, the ATLAS telescope in South Africa discovered asteroid 2024 PT5, a ten-meter-wide space rock roughly the ...

What is the moon phase today? Today, Jan. 27, 2025, the moon is 28 days old, in the Waning Crescent phase of its lunar cycle. It is 3% illuminated. Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the ...

The phenomenon of a Full Moon arises when our planet, Earth, is precisely sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon. This alignment ensures the entire side of the Moon that faces us gleams under ...