NASA released a photo of Jupiter that shows the planet in a whole new light. Related video above: NASA captures volcanic world of Jupiter's moon Io This new look at the gas giant is from the Hubble ...

The northern and southern lights, auroras visible from the poles, glow with a range of different colored lights. Here's the ...

What is the moon phase today? Today, Jan. 25, 2025, the moon is 26 days old, in the Waning Crescent phase of its lunar cycle. It is 15% 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 ...

Renée Fleming returned to the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts for her first concert since 2015. She presented her ...

By Becky Ferreira For a few months last fall, a school-bus-size space rock named 2024 PT5 gained fame as Earth’s new “mini-moon.” Astronomers rushed to study the object while it was still ...

An alignment of six planets will dazzle in January 2025. Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune will align in the ...

Jan. 10, 2025 — Researchers have created a dataset of the whole atmosphere, enabling new research to be conducted on previously difficult-to-study regions. Using a new data-assimilation system ...

Jan. 7, 2025 — A researcher has used advanced models that indicate that the formation of Pluto and Charon may parallel that of the Earth-Moon system. Both systems include a moon that is a large ...

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Astronomy and planetary science are the study of objects and phenomena that occur beyond the Earth’s atmosphere ... formation posits that the early Moon underwent heavy impacts.