Bats are blind You’ve no doubt heard the idiom “blind as a bat,” but this is another often repeated science myth. The phrase ...

This material causes Titania and Oberon to have darker and redder leading hemispheres. These outer moons effectively shield ...

Heat often comes from a planet’s formation and the decay of its radioactive elements. But smaller celestial objects like moons have only tiny reserves ... volcanism would occur,” they wrote. Just ...

Tiny glass beads from Apollo missions reveal Moon's ancient volcanic eruptions through sparkling mineral coatings.

Last week, we stepped out onto the back porch with the Bible skeptic Michael and looked up at the moon, stars and planets.

Look for them around 10 p.m. local daylight time, roughly one-quarter up in the western sky. In addition to their closeness ...

Dusty clouds made of sand—that may rain iron—blanket a giant planet orbiting a young, sun-like star just 310 light-years from Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed. The discovery was made ...

Pro tip: If you only have a casual interest in astrology, the Astro Portrait feature on astro-seek is the perfect tool for ...

Astronomers have captured silicate clouds and a mysterious disk around two giant young exoplanets, revealing surprises that ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have captured breathtakingly detailed images of two giant exoplanets ...

Earth is perfectly safe from a menacing asteroid known as 2024 YR4 that is big enough to level a city, but the moon? Not so much.

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