A February moon offers a practical preview of where to look for March's total lunar eclipse.

A newly identified Earth-sized exoplanet with a year-long orbit may lie near its star’s habitable zone, but extreme cold could limit its chances of hosting liquid water.

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Mercury, Venus, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Jupiter will appear together shortly after sunset on Feb. 28 — but is this the ...

Coronagraphs are telescopes equipped with an occulting disk to block out the overwhelming radiation emanated from the visible ...

Stanford University's campus is a destination in itself, with 8,000 acres of architecture, art, history and trails. Here's how to visit as an intelligent tourist.

A lunar occultation happens when the moon passes directly in front of a star or another celestial body, blocking it from view ...

The sunspot region released as many as four X-class flares in a span of 24 hours.

Explore the visibility of Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn in February 2026. Discover observation dates, locations and details based on Space.com and NASA data.

The Italian scientist Galileo Galilei, when hearing about the invention of the telescope in 1608, decided to make his own ...

That’s Kodachrome Basin State Park in a nutshell – Utah’s crimson-hued wonderland that somehow flies under the radar while ...

Echo Bluff State Park in Eminence, Missouri is that rare gem – a 476-acre paradise where towering limestone bluffs meet crystal-clear waters, and somehow, miraculously, the secret hasn’t gotten out.