On Monday night (Oct. 7), Venus will be in the constellation Libra, the Scales. But by next month – on Nov. 4 – it will have appeared to have moved about 38-degrees to the east where it will then ...

Solar farms in orbit, nuclear power on the moon, space elevators and interstellar travel — which might we see happen first?

This rocky planet, discovered with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile, is smaller than Earth, ...

7, 2024 — Planet-forming disks ... Potential Missing Link to First Stars Oct. 3, 2024 — Looking deep into the early universe with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have found ...

This October, the astronomy world will be abuzz with night-sky happenings, from a bright and potentially naked-eye-visible ...

As we concretise plans to build a colony on the Moon, real-time communication with that space real estate still eludes us, ...

AN ASTEROID is expected to be hooked into Earth’s orbit tomorrow night, acting a second ‘tiny moon’ for the next two months.

Explore the best gifts for space enthusiasts and backyard observers in our 2024 Holiday Gift Guide. The holiday season is the ...

Earth's orbit will temporarily capture a mini moon — a tiny asteroid called Asteroid 2024 PT5. Local educators tell us ...

Earth is getting a tiny new mini-moon that will stick around in our orbit for a few weeks. It won’t be the first (or the last ...

By Katrina Miller Scientists are studying whether future astronauts on deep-space journeys could ... suggesting a future in which our planet outlives its star. By Jonathan O’Callaghan ...