Researchers simulated Martian permafrost and ice cap conditions in a laboratory, exposing *Escherichia coli* samples in pure water ice and water-sediment mixtures to cosmic radiation equivalent to 50 ...

Dave Eicher, Editor Emeritus of *Astronomy* magazine, encourages early morning observation of meteors between midnight and 4 a.m. These meteors, identified as Orionids, visually originate from the ...

Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) is currently visible in both morning and evening skies, initially located near the Big Dipper within Canes Venatici before transitioning into Boötes. Its perigee, the closest ...

On October 18, the predawn sky features a close celestial alignment of the Moon and Venus within the constellation Virgo. Venus appears as a magnitude -3.9 object, exhibiting a 94% illuminated gibbous ...

Hubble proved Andromeda is a separate galaxy by identifying a Cepheid variable star within it. Cepheid variables have a period-luminosity relationship: longer period means greater brightness. Knowing ...

The Pleiades (M45), a 100-million-year-old open cluster containing approximately 500 stars located 380 light-years from Earth, is observable high in the east by 10 P.M. local daylight time.

On October 17th, early morning observations of Jupiter will feature transits of Io's and Europa's shadows across its cloud tops, with specific timings varying by time zone. A telescopic view of ...

The New Moon is typically invisible from Earth as its illuminated side faces away, with the shadowed side blending into the bright daytime sky when it is positioned between Earth and the Sun.

Looking up at the Moon in the night sky, you would never imagine that it is slowly moving away from Earth. But we know otherwise. In 1969, NASA’s Apollo missions installed reflective panels on the ...

Andromeda (M31), the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way, is slated to collide with our galaxy in several billion years, a process expected to be gradual rather than abrupt. Historical observations ...

Venus will be visible in the western sky for approximately one hour after sunset throughout September, exhibiting a diminishing phase and decreasing altitude. A close conjunction with the Moon will ...

The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, confirmed by its hyperbolic trajectory, marks the first detection of hydroxyl gas (OH) from a visitor originating outside our solar system, indicating the presence of ...