Amateur and professional astronomers track the stars and moon by attaching their telescopes to motorized, equatorial mounts.

The eta Aquariids are just the first of two meteor showers that we see each year from Halley's Comet. Most comets tend to ...

A good estimation of the cloud tops is like the finest gold, especially for pilots flying under IFR during the winter months.

"We're studying the leftover raw materials from the formation of the planets and trying to understand the history that made ...

This solar system and universe station is part of the Sun, Earth, Universe exhibition that opens Monday, May 5, on the fourth floor of the University of Wyoming’s Science Initiative Building. The ...

A new moon occurs when the moon is directly between Earth and the sun, with its shadowed side pointing towards us. You can see a new moon when it crosses the face of the sun during a solar eclipse.

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 ...

Melissa Fleur Afshar is a Newsweek reporter based in London, United Kingdom. Her current focus is on trending life stories and human-interest features on a variety of topics ranging from ...

Recent research suggests that Earth's minimoon, 2024 PT5, could actually be a remnant of the Moon itself ... As Earth orbits the Sun, it passes through a cloud of debris. This includes human ...

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