The coming week will see the gas giant Saturn return to the Northern Hemisphere's late night sky, after spending the last few ...

Our circumstances here on the wondrous, life-supporting Earth can give us a false understanding of what the universe is ...

Titan is unique in our solar system: it’s the only world besides Earth known to have stable liquids on its surface.

The pH scale is a measure of how acidic or alkaline something is, 1 being highly acidic, 14 being highly alkaline, and 7 ...

When considering space colonization, most discussions focus on the Moon and Mars. While they’re relatively close to Earth and seem accessible, both have major drawbacks. Neither has a magnetic field ...

Bluish-white Regulus in Leo is moving toward the western horizon and sets around 10 p.m. in mid-July, followed a couple of ...

Several planets stand still in the sky, Titan’s shadow transits Saturn, and Venus gives Taurus a second eye in the sky this week.

The science behind why the Earth will spin just a little bit faster on July 9, July 22, and August 5, this year.

After its voyage past Mars, Mariner 4 maintained intermittent communication with JPL and returned data about the ...

Saturn is a planet widely recognisable for its iconic rings but a new study suggests Earth may also have had a similar ring system over 50 million years ago. As part of the research, 21 asteroid ...

Saturn, the ultimate task master in Astrology parlance, is now in retrograde. The repository of discipline, responsibility, limitations, and karma, the majestic planet has commenced its backspin into ...

Mercury reaches its greatest elongation, 26 degrees east of the sun on July 4. From latitude 40 degrees north, the +0.6-magnitude planet is low in the west-northwest and sets during twilight about 1.5 ...