I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...

Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the ...

One of the big firsts in 2024 came from SpaceX as it finally managed to fly its Starship into space without blowing up.

Because the period of an object does not depend on its mass, comets’ orbital periods remain unchanged due to mass loss.

Former Purdue professor Jay Melosh has had his legacy honored in the form of a crater being named after him on the surface of Mars.

Comet ATLAS hit a maximum magnitude of -3.4 during its close encounter with the sun, just shy of the brightness of Venus in ...

Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars will appear to line up and be bright enough to see with the naked eye in the first few hours ...

Did you know that Mars at opposition is a special time when Earth and Mars are closest? This happens when Earth passes directly between Mars and the Sun. At this point, Mars appears larger and ...

Dec. 16, 2024 — Anthropologists argue physical artifacts of human exploration on Mars deserve cataloging, preservation and care in order to chronicle humanity's ... Dec. 9, 2024 — Dust storms ...

The 123-metre-tall rocket, which Elon Musk hopes to use to colonise Mars, was scheduled to lift off from the company’s Starbase facility in Texas at 4pm local time (10pm GMT) on Wednesday ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit has snapped a striking shot of the super-bright comet racing past our planet for the first time in ...