An event called a "ring plane crossing" will occur between Saturn and Earth on March 23, 2025, when Saturn's rings will ...

The countdown is officially on and it's time to get your panda gear ready! The Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation ...

Giant pandas Bao Li and Qing Bao enjoy some bamboo at their newly renovated habitat at Smithsonian's National Zoo in ...

The newcomer replacing Pluto presently goes by “Planet Nine.” If and when it finally shows up, it will get the honor of a ...

The potent gravitational magnification facilitated astronomers in detecting faint background sources and examining their internal structures, potentially leading to the identification of individual ...

The most powerful telescope to be launched into space has made history by detecting a record number of new stars in a distant galaxy. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, history's largest and most ...

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The science of the sun and its effects on the solar system is a sprawling discipline that expects a very exciting 2025 ...

Lewis, who helped turn San Joaquin County into the top tomato-producing county in the United States, has been honored by the Smithsonian and will be forever remembered as a significant force ...

Carter is hardly remembered as a champion of NASA. But he saved the space shuttle program, and his words that have been journeying aboard the Voyager probes for decades.

Willner (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics ... The galaxy weighs in at around 14 billion solar masses and has a surprisingly developed structure for its age. The galaxy’s existence ...

Parker Solar Probe launched in 2018, heading to the centre of our solar system. It had already swept past the Sun 21 times, getting ever nearer, but the Christmas Eve visit was record-breaking.