You cannot see the 8th planet from our sun, Neptune, with your eyes alone. Here’s how NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft — the 1st and only craft ever to visit Neptune — saw it in 1989. Image via NASA. Read ...

Hurricane Nolo is strengthening south of Hawaii, with forecasters warning that the storm could bring potentially catastrophic ...

Saturn is the most gasp-inducing planet when viewed through a telescope. And it’s currently providing its best views of 2026 as it reaches its October 4 opposition. Saturn looks starlike to the eye ...

What makes a Harvest Moon a Harvest Moon? Is it really bigger, brighter or yellower than other full moons? This year, it’ll fall on September 26. In this video, Deborah Byrd explores the science and ...

What are the full moon names? Cultures across the world have given special names to full moons, and this practice is very much alive in North America. Some almanacs assign full moon names by the month ...

Watch for the beautiful daytime moon this week, a pale orb floating against a blue sky in the morning hours. Look west! You'll see it! Hurricane Nolo is strengthening south of Hawaii, and could bring ...

The Andromeda Galaxy is the closest large spiral galaxy to our own Milky Way galaxy. Excluding the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds — both visible from Earth’s Southern Hemisphere — the Andromeda ...

Where does the celestial equator intersect your horizon? ALWAYS at points due east and due west. And the equinox sun is on the celestial equator. That’s why the equinox sun rises due east and due west ...

Artemis 1, a 2022 uncrewed mission to the moon, captured this family portrait of a distant Earth and the moon in the foreground. Seeing Earth images from space gives us a broader perspective of our ...

Yes, there is an aurora season, which comes around the fall and spring equinox each year. This pattern in nature – auroras increasing twice a year – has been known to scientists for more than a ...

The European Space Agency’s JUICE mission to Jupiter launched in 2023 and is due to arrive in 2031. Its job will be to explore Jupiter’s ocean-bearing moons: Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. And its ...

View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Rupesh Sangoi in Mumbai, India, took and combined photos of the sunrise throughout the year. The image shows how the point where the sun rises shifts along the ...