January 2025 will be an excellent opportunity to spot Mars and some of its details with a medium-sized telescope!

The NASA Science Activation Program’s Astronomy Activation Ambassadors (AAA) project aims to measurably enhance student ...

Each evening, enjoy a sweeping view of four planets at once. Also look for Mars occulted by the Moon and meteors!

Operations teams have confirmed NASA’s mission to “touch” the Sun survived its record-breaking closest approach to the solar surface on Dec. 24, 2024.

More than 30,000 scientists gathered in Washington, D.C. during the second week of December – many to show off the work of NASA’s science volunteers! The American Geophysical Union held its annual ...

Lee esta historia en español aquí. NASA researchers have discovered a perplexing case of a black hole that appears to be “tipped over,” rotating in an unexpected direction relative to the galaxy ...

Orientale Basin and its multiple rings formed about 3.8 billion years ago, at the end of the conjectured Late Heavy Bombardment. None of the rings are the initial crater itself, which would fall ...

Craters are the mark the passing universe leaves on the Moon, a cosmic guestbook. They tell us the history not only of the Moon, but of our solar system. Earth's Moon is covered in craters. Humanity's ...

Around 4 billion years ago, our young inner solar system underwent a cataclysmic pummeling by asteroids that carved huge basins into Earth’s Moon. That’s the theory of the Late Heavy Bombardment, ...

The Moon’s craters were among the first things Galileo observed upon turning his telescope on the skies, informing the world that the lunar surface was “full of hollows and protuberances, just like ...