The asteroid named 2026 JH2 will pass by our planet within the orbit of the moon.

May 2026 will feature two full moons, including a rare blue micromoon. Here's when to see them shine in Indiana.

A piece of space debris, a spent SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage, is speeding toward the Moon and will crash into it. Astronomers ...

China says two previously unknown lunar minerals have been identified in samples returned by the Chang’e 5 mission, and the ...

While Galileo's observations killed off the old model, we would need to wait centuries for conclusive evidence that Earth ...

The asteroid, named 2026 JH2, was first detected on May 10 by the Mt. Lemmon Survey in Arizona, one of the major ...

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Thanks to the sheer mass of Jupiter and fellow gas giant Saturn, the Solar System barycenter is rarely in the center of the Sun, and often outside of the Sun altogether, as the video below from ...

May’s sky features not one but two full moons as well as the dazzling Eta Aquarids meteor shower. Here’s when to look up for the month’s most striking alignments.

The macabre affair kicks off a busy month of celestial events, including a meteor shower running for much of the month as well as the return of Manhattanhenge, when the sunsets line up with the city’s ...

During a new moon, the side of the moon that is not being lit up by the sun is visible from Earth, the almanac explained, ...