During their historic first crewed mission orbiting the Moon, the Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders performed a Christmas Eve broadcast, reciting the initial ten verses of ...

A novel astronomical event, termed a "superkilonova," is proposed to explain the coincident detection of gravitational waves (S250818k), indicating a subsolar-mass neutron star merger, and an ...

On December 25, the Moon will pass 4° north of Saturn at 11 P.M. EST, with both celestial bodies observable in the southwestern sky during the evening. Saturn will present a magnitude of 0.7, ...

The article details a significant astronomical event: the transit of Jupiter's moon Io and its shadow across the gas giant's disk, observed overnight from December 27th into December 28th. The ingress ...

The article highlights a specific celestial event on December 27, 2025, detailing the transit of Io and its shadow across Jupiter's disk. It provides guidance for observing the constellation Auriga, ...

Earth's orbit is an ellipse, not a perfect circle. Earth's distance from the Sun varies by about 3 million miles throughout the year. Earth's orbit's semimajor axis is approximately 93 million miles.

Legendary astronaut James “Jim” Lovell, whose steady command during the harrowing Apollo 13 mission captivated the world, died Friday in Lake Forest, Illinois. He was 97. A veteran of four ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has identified 341 "Little Red Dots" (LRDs), described as unexpectedly large galaxies found less than a billion years after the Big Bang, challenging existing ...

The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are predicted to collide and merge between 3.9 and 5.6 billion years from now, based on observed relative motion. The merger process will involve multiple ...

The Soviet/Russian space program achieved numerous "firsts" in human spaceflight, including the first human in space (Yuri Gagarin, Vostok 1), the first spacewalk (Alexei Leonov, Voskhod 2), and the ...

A new era in lunar research is coming, and Lunar Vertex is getting ready to lead the way. Lunar Vertex is NASA’s first so-called PRISM mission (Payloads and Research Investigations on the Surface of ...

Lunar samples returned by the Apollo missions provided crucial data, revealing the Moon's age, low density, similar oxygen isotopic composition to Earth's mantle, and depletion of volatile elements, ...