The moon is covering three planets and a major star in an occultation.
Nina Godlewski
Sep 18, 2017
The U.S. rattles its sword.
Joe Difazio
Sep 18, 2017
NASA has already announced a slew of projects to study Jupiter and it's satellites. With giant-planet research gaining prominence in the recent past, what next for humanity?
Suraj Radhakrishnan
Sep 18, 2017
Here's how you can watch Cassini's final moments after two decades in space.
Denisse Moreno
Sep 14, 2017
As Cassini prepares for its final plunge into Saturn's atmosphere, let's take a look our nine farthest scouts in the solar system and beyond.
Suraj Radhakrishnan
Sep 13, 2017
Cassini and Titan had a goodbye kiss flyby Monday to put the craft on course for finale.
Nina Godlewski
Sep 12, 2017
Before Cassini spacecraft takes its death dive into Saturn to end its NASA mission, it took images of jets of water and organic matter rocketing out of the moon Enceladus’ south pole.
Elana Glowatz
Sep 11, 2017
The full moon this month won't be a Harvest Moon like usual and Neptune will be visible near the moon as well.
Nina Godlewski
Sep 05, 2017
Scientists have turned frequency data that NASA’s Cassini spacecraft collected from Saturn’s moons and rings into music that follows the spacecraft’s life-ending dive into the planet on Sept. 15.
Elana Glowatz
Aug 30, 2017
There will be a total lunar eclipse in January, and no you don't need glasses to view it.
Nina Godlewski
Aug 29, 2017
Shortly before Neil Armstrong landed on the moon, he almost died when the lunar landing vehicle he was test flying crashed and exploded.
Elana Glowatz
Aug 25, 2017
New research from the University of California, says there is no water in the moon, contradicts that out of Brown University.
Nina Godlewski
Aug 22, 2017
The mass extinction event that killed the dinosaurs included so much soot from global fires that Earth was plunged into darkness for years.
Elana Glowatz
Aug 21, 2017
People on airplanes and astronauts aboard the ISS get an extra special view of total solar eclipses.
Elana Glowatz
Aug 21, 2017
Eclipse selfies, and selfies with the sun in general, are not wise decisions. Here's why.
Elana Glowatz
Aug 21, 2017
There are plenty of total solar eclipse streams and live broadcasts to watch the rare event today.
Nina Godlewski
Aug 21, 2017
Weather like temperature and wind will change during the eclipse so NOAA is planning to study it.
Nina Godlewski
Aug 18, 2017
We always see the same face of the moon from Earth not because the moon doesn’t rotate on its own axis, but because the two bodies are tidally locked with each other.
Himanshu Goenka
Aug 15, 2017
An active dynamo in the lunar core is thought to have generated the moon’s magnetic field which disappeared due to unknown reasons sometime between 1 and 2.5 billion years ago.
Himanshu Goenka
Aug 09, 2017
How the dark and light swirls on the surface of the moon formed is a mystery to NASA scientists but they're planning a mission to learn more.
Nina Godlewski
Aug 08, 2017
If the moon orbits Earth about once a month, why are solar eclipses so rare?
Nina Godlewski
Aug 07, 2017
The full moon during the month of August is called the sturgeon or blueberry moon, here's how and when to see it.
Nina Godlewski
Aug 06, 2017