Is a “temporary second moon” really going to orbit the Earth? That’s the claim made in a number of viral social media posts ...

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Settling on the Moon or Mars may be all the buzz. But how about we all move to an icy dwarf planet in the middle of the Solar System? To Ceres. What would make this a good candidate for a space ...

The planet is one of the best worlds for follow-up studies to determine whether it could be habitable or not.

But unlike Jupiter, Venus does have phases, going from not illuminated at all (when it is between the Earth and the Sun) to ...

Clyde Tombaugh, who was born on this day in 1906, grew up on a farm in Kansas and was captivated by sights of the moon and ...

Some of the most influential voices in planetary science and space-inspired culture will take center stage on Feb. 14 as Lowell Observatory hosts “A Night of Discovery,” the keynote event ...

Experts believe that we may now be close to finding extraterrestrial life. A specific point in our sky could hold the answer ...

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Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which ...

Astronomers suspect that a massive metallic cloud swirling in a nearby star system could be hiding a giant planet or dwarf ...

Sunrise and sunset • Sun rises at 7:10 a.m. and sets at 5:21 p.m. on the 1st • Sun rises at 6:36 a.m. and sets at 5:52 p.m. on the 28th Moon’s phases • Full “Snow Moon” on the 1st • New moon on ...