Space

The photo left behind by the astronaut | Wikimedia Commons Apollo 16 astronaut Charles Duke left something deeply…

August will bring two opportunities to look skyward as a solar eclipse and the annual Perseid meteor shower…

We’re just a few short days away from the Aug. 12 total solar eclipse, when millions will watch…

We built clocks around the day and then quietly began treating the day as though it were a…

In January 1986, Voyager 2 swept past Uranus and gathered the only close-up measurements humanity has ever taken…

The Moon crosses in front of the Sun during a total solar eclipse at Lake Monroe on April…

The Lion’s Gate Portal is open! The Lion’s Gate Portal is an astrological term describing the alignment of…

Astronomers hunt black holes at the center of a galaxy, not its edge, because that is where the…

On Aug. 8, 1977, the Salyut 5 space station fell out of space and burned up in Earth’s…

The surface of the Sun has been photographed in more detail than ever before, and it turns out…

Early risers will catch a spectacular sight in the predawn hours of Aug. 9, as the slender crescent…

A meteor streaked across the New York City area in broad daylight on July 16, 2024, producing a…

In 1972, an Apollo 16 astronaut left his family photograph on the Moon: The message identifies them as visitors “from planet Earth”