The Moon is usually a picture of stillness, its grey face changing only with the phases of light. Yet for a fraction of a ...

The lunar impact flash - an explosion of light caused by something hitting the Moon's surface - was captured on Friday.

UTC, astronomers at the Armagh Observatory and Planetarium (AOP) have captured what is believed to be the first video ...

On December 12, 2025, a team of astronomers at the Armagh Observatory and Planetarium (AOP) witnessed something truly rare—a brief flash of light on the Moon’s surface caused by a meteoroid impact.

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has discovered a new moon orbiting Uranus. The moon, designated S/2025 U1, is about six miles (10 kilometers) in diameter, which made it hard to spot by ...

That quieter is the far side of the Moon, where the bulk of our natural satellite acts as a 7.34767309×10 19 -tonne shield against Earth radio noise. The first step is the LuSEE-NIght mission, which ...

Since then, astronomers have observed all manner of lensing caused by all manner of bodies—perhaps none as visually striking ...

A team of scientists at the Southwest Research Institute, using photography commissioned from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, have discovered a previously unknown moon in our solar system that's in ...

China has put forth a proposal to construct a large radio telescope array on the far side of the moon. For the last few years, concepts have been floating around of establishing a telescope on the ...

Uranus hosts yet another moon, which looks like a tiny, faint smudge in images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers report in an Aug. 19 NASA release. The newfound object makes the ...

An astronomer at Armagh Observatory and Planetarium has captured what is believed to be the first video recording of a lunar impact flash made from the island of Ireland.

While it does have somewhat of an awkward name, Uranus has actually been called the boring planet, and at first glance, it does look rather calm and yes, even boring, but underneath its placid blue ...