Mars is brightening and the giant planet Jupiter is reaching its best apparition in a decade for Northern Hemisphere ...

November’s major meteor shower ramps up as the Moon reaches perigee shortly before its Full phase in the sky this week.

An astronomer takes us on a tour of the universe to learn about the birth of stars and planets and how they get their spin.

Like the Earth, the Sun likely has swirling polar vortices, according to new research led by the U.S. National Science Foundation National Center for ...

Night sky observers always factor in the moon to determine the best time for astronomy viewing, especially for the two meteor ...

Saturn's rings loop for hundreds of thousands ... But in 2005, NASA's Cassini spacecraft travelled to the South Pole and discovered that stillness shattered. It captured explosive jets constantly ...

A recent study points to an exciting possibility: that Uranus's moon Miranda, located in the far reaches of our solar system, ...

Its North Pole is coated in organic material that wandered ... including Jupiter’s Europa and Saturn’s Enceladus. “Any ocean world could possibly be a habitable environment,” says Bonnie ...

There’s an imaginary line between the North Pole and the South Pole ... Most are spinning in the same direction, too. Jupiter and Saturn spin quite a bit faster than Earth, taking only about ...

Neil deGrasse Tyson and his co-host discuss Saturn's skies, the universe's north pole, black holes, and more. Kate Biberdorf, Neil deGrasse Tyson and his co-host talk about chemical reactions that ...