Space book authors Emily Carney and Bruce McCandless III offer a primer for the new Space Age with a look at how it all ...

If it’s real, some may question whether something with a mass about three times Pluto’s counts as a planet at all.

But that’s not all. Chicagoans will also likely get to witness a lunar occultation of Mars and a parade of planets. A lunar occultation occurs when the moon passes in front of an object ...

Why? Because without the Moon's reflective glow, it'll be far easier to pick out stars, nebulas, planets and other non-lunar objects. Then, just a few days later on February 2nd, you can witness ...

January has a meteor shower, top-notch planet sightings ... particularly with the relatively dim waxing crescent moon, which is only 11 percent full, according to the American Meteor Society.

Samantha Harvey’s Booker-winning novel 'Orbital' is far more than science-fiction; it raises deeper questions about what it ...

It is in opposition, making it one of the brightest objects near the moon. Opposition means that Mars is directly opposite the sun from Earth’s perspective, making it fully illuminated and ideal for ...

On Monday night you may have a chance to witness the moon obscuring the Red Planet at its brightest, as well as a comet’s closest approach to the sun. By Katrina Miller The first full moon of ...

"A parade of planets, also sometimes referred to as a planetary alignment, is when several planets in our solar system appear ...

Another highlight of the year’s first planet parade: after sunset on February 1, Venus and the crescent moon will appear close together in the southwest sky for several hours before plummeting ...

Some of them have already taken place, On January 16, the planet Mars shone at its brightest ... There's a blood Moon eclipse over America and Europe this March. On March 13 and 14 2025, the ...