The article details a significant astronomical event: the transit of Jupiter's moon Io and its shadow across the gas giant's disk, observed overnight from December 27th into December 28th. The ingress ...

During their historic first crewed mission orbiting the Moon, the Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders performed a Christmas Eve broadcast, reciting the initial ten verses of ...

On December 25, the Moon will pass 4° north of Saturn at 11 P.M. EST, with both celestial bodies observable in the southwestern sky during the evening. Saturn will present a magnitude of 0.7, ...

The observation period features lunar appulses with Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus, complemented by transits of Jupiter's Galilean moons (Io and Europa) and their shadows across the gas giant's disk.

Earth's orbit is an ellipse, not a perfect circle. Earth's distance from the Sun varies by about 3 million miles throughout the year. Earth's orbit's semimajor axis is approximately 93 million miles.

The Hubble Space Telescope captured a sign of water vapor in the atmosphere of a distant exoplanet, according to an analysis of observations published last year in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

Early understanding of the Milky Way's shape was limited by our internal perspective, initially assuming a typical spiral structure. In 2005, the GLIMPSE survey, utilizing data from the Spitzer Space ...

Reanalysis of data from the Cassini-Huygens mission, initially suggesting a global subsurface liquid water ocean on Saturn's moon Titan, now indicates the presence of a large, slushy region beneath ...

NASA has released a 3D animation depicting the exterior of the upcoming Gateway space station, a lunar orbiting outpost designed to facilitate extended space missions. Scheduled for launch in 2025, ...

Göbekli Tepe, a 12,000-year-old site in southern Turkey (potentially older in parts), predates known agricultural societies and displays complex megalithic structures, challenging existing theories ...

Betelgeuse, a red supergiant star, will eventually explode as a supernova. The supernova will be as bright as a half-moon for over three months, visible even during the day. The explosion poses no ...

The Seestar S30 is introduced as a compact, all-in-one astroimaging system by ZWO, designed for capturing deep-sky objects through integrated optics, automated tracking, and a user-friendly software ...