The comic strip The Far Side has sometimes featured takes on alien life forms to hilarious effect, and these are some of the ...

Possibly one of the best-known constellations in the northern sky, Ursa Major—or the Great Bear—contains an asterism of seven ...

The image of the full moon can be fixed in less than one- fourth ... by electricity the instant when the light is admitted to the dark chamber attached to the telescope.” By this means M.

The iridescent cloud reveals new clues about ice formation in the Martian atmosphere (no little green men, sorry).

At the surface, Mars is a desolate, barren world with a rocky landscape, massive dust storms and extreme temperature swings.

Many photos McCarthy has taken of the space station in the past show the ship as a silhouette in Earth's shadow. This time he ...

Look up this week for February’s full snow moon and to catch the last glimpse of a visible parade of planets in the night sky ...

Curiosity, a set of NASA 's robotic "eyes" on the Red Planet, recorded 16 minutes of so-called noctilucent clouds flying ...

The once-bustling Durban International Airport, which served as the city’s primary air travel hub for six decades, now lies abandoned, ensnared in a complex web of legal and political disputes.

Here are the dates for the full moons in 2025. The next full moon will be on Friday, March 14, 2025. It will officially reach its full moon phase at 2:55 a.m. EDT (0755 GMT) but local moonrise ...

What is the moon phase today? Today, Feb. 13, 2025, the moon is 15 days old and is in the Full Moon phase of its lunar cycle. It is 99% illuminated. Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the ...

The phenomenon of a Full Moon arises when our planet, Earth, is precisely sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon. This alignment ensures the entire side of the Moon that faces us gleams under ...