When a celestial body, such as a moon, planet or an asteroid passes in front of another celestial body, blocking its view, we call that an occultation. The word is derived from the Latin occultäre, to ...

A new study suggests that the planet’s icy interior and liquid ocean could be insulated with a three-to-six-mile-thick layer ...

The two biggest planets in our Solar System in one telescope view. And catastrophe is imminent. If Jupiter and Saturn suddenly were on a collision course, which of the two planets would emerge ...

Astronomers have finally found an asteroid keeping pace with Saturn in its orbit around the ... also exist for Uranus and Neptune and even for Earth and Mars (SN: 2/1/22). After a telescope ...

Astronomers have used a range of telescopes, including Hubble, to watch as particles dance around a neutron star collision ...

Why does the Earth spin? Sara H., age 5, New Paltz, New York A globe was the first thing I ever bought with my own money.

It returned in 2021, and will swing by Earth again in 2029, 2036 and 2068. Until recently, there was a small chance that ...

Gaseous giant Saturn seems to have snatched its first known ... It is worth noting that even smaller terrestrial planets like Earth and Mars also have Trojans. "We think it is about 9 miles ...

For a brief moment, the Sun resembled a giant, orange-hued 'googly eye' during a recent Martian solar eclipse. On Sept. 30, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured Phobos, one of the Red Planet's ...

Decades of destructive land use and water mismanagement have collided with the human-caused ... complex system by which water moves around the Earth. Water evaporates from the ground — including ...

Buried Alive: Carbon Dioxide Release from Magma Deep Beneath Ancient Volcanoes Was a Hidden Driver of Earth's Past Climate Oct. 30, 2024 — A team discovered that, contrary to present scientific ...

Jupiter and Saturn spin quite a bit faster than Earth, taking only about 10 hours to rotate. Saturn’s spin is a little bit tilted, so we get to see changing views of its rings over time.