with eyes fixed on the sky. The Rochester Museum and Science Center presented the free stargazing experience. Those that went could get a close-up look at Jupiter, Saturn, the Moon and other celestial ...

This week, meet a “scuba-diving” lizard, marvel at a spacecraft’s longevity, explore hidden physics in a painting, unravel ...

The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) spacecraft, barreling through our solar system, recently used Earth's gravity to ...

The system continuously scans the sky while identifying and tracking near-Earth objects ... can also be orbited by ...

Researchers have found evidence suggesting that the Earth may have once had a system of Saturn-like rings. The rings are ...

The ring would have gradually fallen to Earth as meteorites, correlating to a spike of impacts seen in the geological record.

In Norse mythology, the end of the world, Ragnarok, begins with a three-year winter with no intervening summers: the Fimbulvetr. Now, a new research study from the National Museum of Denmark, ...

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 ...

The most familiar type of telescope is the refractor. It uses two lenses, one to collect the light and form an image, called ...

But the most successful recording was made by the Perseverance rover, which used the Mastcam-Z camera system to capture video ...

(When surveying the region, make sure not to mistake brighter, magnitude 0.6 Saturn for Neptune — Saturn ... Saturday, ...

By staring into the hellish landscape of Jupiter's moon Io -- the most volcanically active location in the solar system -- astronomers have been able to study a fundamental process in planetary ...