"Textbooks will need to be updated," study co-author Yohai Kaspi, a planetary scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science ...

Sunrise and sunset • Sun rises at 7:10 a.m. and sets at 5:21 p.m. on the 1st • Sun rises at 6:36 a.m. and sets at 5:52 p.m. on the 28th Moon’s phases • Full “Snow Moon” on the 1st • New moon on ...

Mercury, Venus, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Jupiter will appear together shortly after sunset on Feb. 28 — but is this the "planet parade" we've been waiting for?

By 12:09 p.m. EST, the full Moon was already 100 per cent in illumination, though to most observers it reserved its most spectacular effect until moonrise, when a brilliant, low Moon emerged out of ...

The second full moon of 2026 — the snow moon — rose after sunset on Sunday, Feb. 1, lighting up the night sky across the ...

Combined chemical and hydrodynamic modeling offers a powerful tool beyond Jupiter. Scientists can apply similar techniques to Uranus, Neptune, and gas rich exoplanets. Such planets remain difficult to ...

NASA has scheduled the launch for the Artemis II moon rocket for no earlier than Feb. 8. WTOP will have details on the ...

A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four ...

Look east at sunset on Jan. 30 to spot the near-full moon shining close to the gas giant Jupiter among the stars of the ...

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Baby stars, teenage planets, and disappearing icebergs are all featured this week. Plus, a look back at a New Horizons image of Jupiter and Io, and a strange, elongated cloud on Mars.

At the heart of our own galaxy, there is a dense thicket of stars with a supermassive black hole at the very center. NASA's ...