NASA's PUNCH mission, a tiny constellation of four satellites, captured a photo of the moon drifting across the sky through a ...

The large golden aura is formed from the incoming light reflected off the sun-side of the occulter, a device that blocks the ...

Venus currently rises in the east at 3:35 a.m. local daylight time. The eerie, low glimmering of Venus is a harbinger of daybreak, which begins exactly at that same time. In a telescope, Venus's ...

We've even been asked if you could run solar cells during the long lunar night on reflected earthlight, so we decided to ...

A new NASA mission to map the solar wind has returned some of its first images from its position in low Earth orbit. The ...

The colors that we see in the Sun and the Moon vary based on various factors. The Sunlight is scattered by the Earth's atmosphere and is thus yellow. The dark, reflective surface of the Moon does ...

The puzzling behavior of Titan's atmosphere has been revealed. The team has shown that the thick, hazy atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon doesn't spin in line with its surface, but instead wobbles ...

The lone planet confirmed to be in the system is squeezed in between the two, orbiting at a distance similar to Earth's distance from the Sun. And, as an added bonus, the planet is orbiting backward ...

The moon will rise with Venus and the ice giant Neptune in the pre-dawn sky on Thursday, May 22.

Titan is a strange world, at -300 degrees Fahrenheit, and shrouded in a jaundiced smog. Similar to Earth, the atmosphere is ...