Mars and Jupiter appear close to the moon this February ... cons and just who and what each scope is best suited to. If you'd prefer to gaze beyond our solar system, we've selected the best ...

"Because most solar system moons rotate very slowly (keeping the same face towards their planet as they orbit, as our moon does to Earth), any ring particles must be orbiting the moon much faster ...

Mars's moon Phobos is so strange that no one knows how it formed. But a forthcoming mission could solve this mystery - and a host of other puzzles connected to the solar system's deep past ...

June 22, 2020 — The Earth-Moon system's history remains mysterious. Scientists believe the two formed when a Mars-sized body collided with the proto-Earth. Earth ended up being the larger ...

Here are the sky-watching highlights for Match 2024: The New’ Worm Moon’ on March 10 defines ... reflecting off cosmic dust left in the solar system. You’ll need to be somewhere very dark ...

On Monday night you may have a chance to witness the moon obscuring the Red Planet ... of material left over from the formation of the solar system that has begun to melt as it approaches the ...

The celestial bodies near us — the sun, moon ... scope of cosmic events, including a lunar eclipse this coming March, meteor showers, and a new comet that will enter the solar system for the ...

Sooner or later, the Moon is bound to block the Sun and cause a total solar eclipse. It doesn’t happen very often—roughly only once per year, usually less—but that’s exactly what this ...