Aug. 12-13 — Peak of the annual Perseid meteor shower. Perseids are fragments shed by comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle. Every August, ...

Another (and, in our view, more important) source of energy for life on Iceheim is the heat coming from its core, underneath ...

Mercury begins to emerge from the dawn glow after Aug. 12. On Aug. 19, Mercury reaches its greatest elongation west of the ...

For many years astronomers have mused about the possibility of putting radio telescopes on the Moon. Considering the extreme ...

When the moon completes the first quarter of its journey around Earth this morning at 5:41 a.m. Its 90-degree angle between ...

Venus, often called Earth’s twisted sister, hides a world of crushing pressure, scorching temperatures, and thick clouds of ...

Mars remains an evening fixture, Saturn is nearing opposition, and Venus and Jupiter meet in the predawn sky Aug. 12.

August brings Saturn and Neptune together, offers two shadow transits of Titan, and sees a conjunction of Venus and Jupiter.

August 2025 brings the Full Sturgeon Moon on August 9, a Venus-Jupiter conjunction on August 12 and the peak of the Perseid meteor shower on the nights of August 11–12.

In 2020, scientists detected phosphine gas on Venus, a molecule linked to microbial life on Earth. New missions funded by ...

Venus reaches its highest altitude above the eastern horizon in 2025 on Aug. 1. Venus will reach its highest altitude in the ...

Supermoons only happen three to four times a year, and always appear consecutively. We have already had six full moons this ...