During their historic first crewed mission orbiting the Moon, the Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders performed a Christmas Eve broadcast, reciting the initial ten verses of ...

Legendary astronaut James “Jim” Lovell, whose steady command during the harrowing Apollo 13 mission captivated the world, died Friday in Lake Forest, Illinois. He was 97. A veteran of four ...

During its initial molten phase, the Moon experienced tidal bulges on its near and far sides due to Earth's immense gravitational pull. The Moon's rotation initially carried these gravitationally ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has identified 341 "Little Red Dots" (LRDs), described as unexpectedly large galaxies found less than a billion years after the Big Bang, challenging existing ...

Earth's orbit is an ellipse, not a perfect circle. Earth's distance from the Sun varies by about 3 million miles throughout the year. Earth's orbit's semimajor axis is approximately 93 million miles.

Asteroid 2019 LF6, a newly discovered Atira asteroid, has an orbit entirely contained within Earth's orbit, a characteristic of this rare class of near-Earth objects. The discovery of 2019 LF6 is ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured a sign of water vapor in the atmosphere of a distant exoplanet, according to an analysis of observations published last year in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

On December 15, 1970, the Soviet Venera 7 probe accomplished the first soft landing by a spacecraft on another planet, specifically Venus. Equipped with sensors for temperature, pressure, and ...

Göbekli Tepe, a 12,000-year-old site in southern Turkey (potentially older in parts), predates known agricultural societies and displays complex megalithic structures, challenging existing theories ...

Betelgeuse, a red supergiant star, will eventually explode as a supernova. The supernova will be as bright as a half-moon for over three months, visible even during the day. The explosion poses no ...

The apparent brightness of celestial objects, rather than their proximity, is the primary factor determining observability. Andromeda Galaxy, despite its vast distance, appears significantly brighter ...