Why do eclipses come in pairs?

Diagrams of the solar system tend to give the planets top billing, lining them up in colorful rows while the star at the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The image was captured by the Meteosat-12 satellite in ...

Astro Brief is a podcast collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and Materials Science. Hosted by Dr. Mike Reed, Astro Brief focuses on ...

Standing in moonshade with astronauts and children I was struck by the majesty of it all - but another niggling thought ...

Had you told people many years ago that the earth was round, they'd have thought you were lying. As far as our forefathers were concerned, they lived on a flat surface and could fall off at any moment ...

The 2026 total solar eclipse is finally upon us, marking the first total solar eclipse visible from parts of mainland Europe in almost three decades. Today, for a few brief moments, some one billion ...

NASA's latest Astronomy Picture of the Day shows six major Saturn moons, offering a rare view of the planet's larger ...

The 2026 Persied meteor shower could be the best one in years, thanks to a new moon that will also cause a total solar ...

Researchers will travel to Spain and Iceland to observe the solar eclipse on 12 August, hoping to answer questions about the solar corona.

Michael Zeiler is currently aboard the expedition ship Ocean Explorer, heading to the fjords of Greenland to view the ...

Compact sensor-packed probes, propelled by laser- or Sun-powered sails, could be humanity's first scouts to another star system.