At least two ingredients are needed to make jets — rotation and magnetic fields — and these produce the ubiquitous laserlike jets we see.

The primary observational focus is Jupiter, featuring a transit of its moon Ganymede and its associated shadow. Prior to the transit, Ganymede and Europa will execute a close alignment and pass east ...

Mercury's visibility is noted to be improving, appearing 7° high an hour before sunrise with a magnitude of –0.3 and a 54% illuminated disk. The planet is approaching its greatest western elongation, ...

On December 3, the Moon reaches perigee, its closest orbital point to Earth, followed by a Full Moon (the December Cold Moon) at 6:14 P.M. EST. This event is identified as a Super Moon, concluding a ...

Celestron introduces the Moon Mission 100mm Tabletop Dobsonian, a 4-inch f/4 reflector telescope that includes two eyepieces, a finder scope, and a Moon filter, weighing 5.3 pounds with an optical ...

On November 22, Titan will transit Saturn. The Silver Sliver Galaxy (NGC 891), an edge-on spiral measuring 13’ by 3’ and glowing at magnitude 9.9, is observable 3.5° east of Almach (Gamma Andromedae) ...

Voyager 1 and 2, launched in 1977, have traversed the heliopause and are currently in interstellar space, with Voyager 1 significantly farther from the Sun due to its higher velocity. The Oort Cloud, ...

The Biosphere 2 facility, specifically its Landscape Evolution Observatory (LEO), serves as a research platform to investigate how life transforms landscapes, ranging from local environments to ...

If we all woke up one morning to find the Moon missing, most of us probably wouldn’t notice. Those who live near the oceans would find the tides reduced, but not completely absent. While the Moon does ...

The Minor Planet Center (MPC) initially classified a near-Earth object (NEO), designated 2018 CN41, as a newly discovered asteroid based on observations from citizen scientists. This was later ...

This list ranks 20 influential astronomers throughout history. The list includes astronomers who made significant discoveries and advancements in the field. The ranking considers contributions such as ...

Mars' current environment is extremely hostile, characterized by a thin atmosphere, extremely low temperatures (-60°C on average), and the instability of liquid water on the surface. Evidence from ...