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, ...

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 ...

The article details the observation of NGC 2264, designated as the Christmas Tree Cluster, on December 24. This celestial object is identified as a magnitude 3.9 combination open cluster and ...

Legendary astronaut James “Jim” Lovell, whose steady command during the harrowing Apollo 13 mission captivated the world, died Friday in Lake Forest, Illinois. He was 97. A veteran of four ...

The winter solstice, occurring on December 20 at 10:03 A.M. EST, initiates astronomical winter in the Northern Hemisphere and summer in the Southern Hemisphere, corresponding to the Northern ...

During its initial molten phase, the Moon experienced tidal bulges on its near and far sides due to Earth's immense gravitational pull. The Moon's rotation initially carried these gravitationally ...

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.

All Apollo lunar modules, except for Apollo 10's "Snoopy," either impacted the lunar surface or disintegrated in Earth's atmosphere. Apollo 10's lunar module, "Snoopy," was jettisoned and intended to ...

Asteroid 2019 LF6, a newly discovered Atira asteroid, has an orbit entirely contained within Earth's orbit, a characteristic of this rare class of near-Earth objects. The discovery of 2019 LF6 is ...

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.

On December 15, 1970, the Soviet Venera 7 probe accomplished the first soft landing by a spacecraft on another planet, specifically Venus. Equipped with sensors for temperature, pressure, and ...

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 ...