Mars has just entered retrograde, suddenly reversing its course across the sky. As of October 30, Mars stopped moving eastwards through the night sky and began crawling its way westwards through the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Scientists have mapped the motions of stars within the Milky Way's companion galaxy, the Large ...

Although the term itself immediately conjures the sort of alchemy at the heart of the best sci-fi fantasy, celestial mechanics —- the numerical nuts and bolts of how planetary bodies move, orbit and ...

The Earth has a newly discovered neighbor in the form of a "quasi-moon" that appears to be following us around through space. The newly discovered object, named 2023 FW13, is an asteroid measuring ...

(Nanowerk News) Using data from the VISTA survey of the Magellanic Clouds system (VMC), researchers at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP), in collaboration with scientists from the ...

Could a recently discovered "super-Earth" have the potential temperature and conditions to sustain life? The new exoplanet is situated "fairly close to us" -- only 137 light-years away -- and orbits ...

Scientists are getting closer in their search for life beyond earth. But with limited federal funding for the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, supporters are the reason cutting-edge ...

The exoplanet, TOI-715 b, is about one and a half times the width of Earth. Could a recently discovered "super-Earth" have the potential temperature and conditions to sustain life? The new exoplanet ...