Figuring out the day length of Earth is more complicated than you might imagine. While on average a day is 24 hours long, throughout the year the planet's rotation can speed up and slow down, with one ...

Each month, a full moon lights up the night sky—but this July brings a special sight for stargazers. The full Buck Moon will ...

How light is light? The James Webb Space Telescope has just been able to directly image a planet so light and faint that, in ...

Mercury reaches its greatest elongation, 26 degrees east of the sun on July 4. From latitude 40 degrees north, the ...

The James Webb telescope has made another stunning discovery -- this time of a massive planet that could potentially sustain ...

The Buck Moon rises on July 10. The full moon of July, also called the Buck Moon, will rise on July 10.

There will be several chances to see the shadow of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, pass across the ringed planet's Earth-facing ...

There could be life out there—way, way out there. Last Wednesday, NASA announced that its James Webb Space Telescope had discovered “compelling evidence” of a planet that is potentially habitable. The ...

Visible in the early-morning sky today, Saturn’s two-toned moon Iapetus reaches superior conjunction just 1.4′ due south of Saturn. The proximity makes the now-11th-magnitude moon easier to find, as ...

Astronomers confirm TOI-5573 b, a rare, miniature Saturn-like planet orbiting a small star, challenging theories of planetary ...

James Webb’s mid-infrared vision has likely captured a frigid, Saturn-mass planet shaping the dusty rings around the nearby ...

Since its debut in 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope has dazzled viewers with its infrared images of galaxies, nebulae, ...