Nov. 13, 2024 — An asteroid struck Mars 11 million years ago and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks of Mars eventually crashed into the Earth and is one of ...

This “farthest away” point is known as the planet’s greatest elongation. Since Mercury is in the evening sky, it is east of ...

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The Election of 2024 has come and gone, and there are winners, and there are losers. But when it comes to the night sky there ...

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"One of the spacecraft's instruments is JunoCam, a two-megapixel camera designed to capture the dynamics of Jupiter's clouds and satellites," Dmitry Bisikalo said ...

Looking up and around during the day, it's easy to understand why the ancients believed that we live under a great dome of sky.

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Venus shines at magnitude -4.0, which makes it nearly eleven times brighter than Sirius, the brightest star in our night sky. The moon will be a little over 3 days past its new phase and about 10% ...