Skywatchers will get a rare chance to see Saturn in its full glory, without chunks of ice and rock swarming around it.

Christopher Chyba held a hollow, dark cylinder made of manganese, zinc, and iron in his Princeton lab, looking skeptically at ...

The Northern Hemisphere is welcoming Spring 2025 on March 20, also known as the vernal equinox. The jump into spring has come ...

The cosmic pinwheel that astronomers feared could one day shower Earth with lethal gamma rays may not be as dangerous as once ...

The word equinox comes from two Latin words meaning equal and night. That’s because on the equinox, day and night last almost ...

Saturn's rings tilt out of view every fourteen to seventeen Earth years. In 2032, they will be at their best again during ...

Spring is here! Truly, Thursday was the first day of spring — notwithstanding the overnight snow showers and low in the 20s ...

Mar. 10, 2025 — Aerospace engineers found that greenhouse gas emissions are changing the environment of near-Earth space in ways that, over time, will reduce the ... Mar. 10, 2025 — It is ...

SAN DIEGO — San Diego rings in the start of the spring season with the first sunset past 7:00 p.m. this year. On Thursday evening, sunset will come at 7:01 p.m., following a sunrise Thursday at 6:52 a ...

Here's what to know about spring. There are only two times of the year when the Earth's axis is tilted neither toward nor away from the sun, resulting in a "nearly" equal amount of daylight and ...