I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...

O'Donoghue pays a visit to NCPR's morning news show, Northern Light, to guide us through what to look for in the morning and ...

A number of asteroids have orbits that take them closer into ... meaning "wanderers." Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn were known in antiquity, and the invention of the telescope added ...

Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto all have quasi-moons which ... The dwarf planet, Ceres, is seen in the main ...

Many of them — particularly those whose new paths brought them near Jupiter or Saturn — had retrograde orbits, and few were very red― both trends that irregular moons show today. The ...

Scientists say microscopic black holes could explain the elusive "dark matter" that makes up a quarter of all matter in the ...

Venus and our closest neighbor Mercury (here's how that works) are lonely. While Jupiter hogs up at least 95 moons, neither of the innermost planets have a single moon to keep them company in their ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft, the largest the agency has ever built for a planetary mission, will travel 1.8 billion ...

Europa was first discovered in 1610 by Florentine astronomer, physicist, and engineer Galileo Galilei. Using a homemade ...

Venus ventures through Scorpio from Sept. 22 until Oct. 17, 2024. Here's what Venus in scorpio means for your zodiac sign, ...

2024 PT5 will be a temporary visitor, arriving in September and flying off again in November.

The universe might be teeming with microscopic black holes the size of an atom but with the mass of a city-sized asteroid, scientists say.