When the moon completes the first quarter of its journey around Earth this morning at 5:41 a.m. Its 90-degree angle between ...

August brings Saturn and Neptune together, offers two shadow transits of Titan, and sees a conjunction of Venus and Jupiter.

First, let’s start with the good news. As with August stargazing any year, there’s still plenty of summer and great summer ...

First, let us start with the good news. As with August stargazing any year, there is still plenty of summer and great summer ...

A metallic ring weighing over 1,100 pounds crash-landed in Kenya just before New Year’s Eve, sending shockwaves—literal and ...

Aug. 12-13 — Peak of the annual Perseid meteor shower. Perseids are fragments shed by comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle. Every August, ...

The night sky tonight and on any clear night offers an ever-changing display of fascinating objects you can see, from stars ...

Mercury begins to emerge from the dawn glow after Aug. 12. On Aug. 19, Mercury reaches its greatest elongation west of the ...

When we talk about solar at all, it’s usually as a way — really, the only scalable way — to slow down the climate crisis. And ...

In a newly sown wheat field, Curtis Liebeck scoops up a fistful of sandy soil and lets it pour through his fingers. The light ...

D escending into Diavik is like landing on a distant moon, the world sealed in a hard sheet of ice and snow stretching in every direction. The plane circled a few times and then slid into a landing ...

Morocco’s cycle of droughts followed by floods has sparked a surge of cloud seeding conspiracy theories, as communities ...