New findings suggest that diurnal tides, driven by solar heat, are a major contributor to the extreme speeds of Venus's winds ...
Comet 3I/ATLAS, the third interstellar object since 1I/Oumuamua (2017) and 2I/Borisov (2019), was spotted by the Chile-based ...
E veryone knows Earth has one moon. That big, bright object in the night sky is the Moon with a capital M. But astronomers ...
The latest Soyuz mission to the International Space Station did more than deliver a fresh crew: it underscored how, even in a ...
I t’s time to say hello to an old friend again. The first near-Earth asteroid ever discovered by humans, 433 Eros, will have a close fly-by of Earth this weekend, and it should stay visible for a few ...
Meteorological winter runs from December 1 to February 28, which tends to be a better fit for the coldest time of the year than astronomical winter.
December 1 marks the beginning of the holiday Advent calendar, a religious tradition that is also celebrated with secular joy ...
KEY FINDINGS The latest thermal frame reveals jets that refuse to obey the Sun. The anti-tail points into the solar wind as ...