Today in History for Sept. 21: In 1522, Martin Luther first published his German translation of the New Testament. In 1776, the first naval battle of the American Revolutionary War was fought by ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first direct measurements of the chemical and physical ...

A close conjunction of the waning crescent Moon (approximately 26% illuminated) and Jupiter occurred around 7 A.M. EDT, observable in the eastern sky before sunrise, with the Moon positioned between ...

Scientists got a never-before-seen look at an area around a large exoplanet 625 light-years away where moons could ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has successfully found and characterised the auroral “footprints” of Jupiter’s moon Callisto for the first time. This discovery completes the “family portrait” of auroral ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — NASA's Europa Clipper mission on Monday launched a satellite to investigate Europa, Jupiter’s “mysterious moon” — a world covered in ice that scientists say could have an ocean ...

Everyone who has ever lived on Earth has been well-aware of the moon, but it turns out Earth also has some frequent temporary companions. These "quasi-moons" are small asteroids that enter into a kind ...

Earth has a newly discovered—albeit temporary—companion in its journey around the sun. In research published this month in Research Notes of the AAS, a non-peer reviewed publication from the American ...

For more than sixty years, a tiny asteroid has been moving in step with Earth, hidden from view until recently. Astronomers now confirm that this small body, named 2025 PN7, is traveling in a special ...

Astronomers have been studying the sun for over 400 years, but Galileo was one of the first to document dark spots on the star. These observations challenged the general idea that the sun had the ...

On September 12, Mars will appear near Spica, while the Moon will pass near Uranus. The Pleiades and the Hyades star cluster will also be visible. Mercury will be in superior conjunction on September ...