Any glimmer of life, light, and levity at this time of year is worth holding onto. January has felt bleak and the news has been ...

The Earth is a little more complicated than the Moon and Mercury due to its thicker atmosphere. The Earth does gain a little mass, as around 40,000 tonnes of material – dust and rock – falls to our ...

Earth ejecta, for instance, could hold Earth life. "We're trying to figure out how much mass is reaching Venus from Earth, and how many cells can that mass carry," Emma Guinan, first author of a ...

In his book The Mathematical Universe, mathematician William Dunham wrote of John Venn’s namesake legacy, the Venn diagram, “No one in the long history of mathematics ever became better known ...

Watch Saturn and Venus gets closer each night this week until they come into their closest ... [+] conjunction on Jan. 18. This Monday night you can watch the full “Wolf Moon” rise to occult Mars.

Comet G3 ATLAS (C/2024) is expected to whiz past the Sun in mid-January, giving skywatchers an extremely rare opportunity to spot the space spectacle from Earth Skyler Caruso is a Writer and ...

January's long, dark nights always make for special stargazing, but this year our skies are hosting a parade of planets, headlined by Venus, which will shine extraordinarily bright this weekend.

In January, you have the opportunity to take in four bright planets—Jupiter, Mars, Venus, and Saturn—in a single sweeping view each night. (Neptune and Uranus will also be there, but not ...

A comet that has taken astronomers by surprise could shine as brightly as Venus in the night sky as it passes by Earth over the next few days. Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) was spotted in April last ...

MORE: Museums and culture centers are offering discounts on tickets and memberships during winter Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn will be the easiest to spot. Uranus and Neptune also are part of ...

A teenager has recreated the Venus de Milo out of snow in her back garden. Emily Bates, 17, sculpted the frozen goddess in her Leeds garden when her school had an inset day. Her mum, Sue Bates ...

The moon and Venus put on quite a show for skywatchers around the world this week. On Jan. 3, 2025, the "Evening Star" Venus and a waxing crescent moon crossed the night sky in an event known as a ...