Imagine you had to experience an apocalypse every day. Volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, asteroid showers. Every day would be a ...

Today is Tuesday, Oct. 21, the 294th day of 2025 with 71 to follow. The moon is new. Morning stars are Jupiter, Mars, Neptune ...

On Oct. 22, 1797, the first silk parachute jump from a high altitude was made by Andre-Jacques Garnerin, who dropped in a ...

Rainfall amounts have varied substantially from one location to another,' said Robert Haley with the NWS forecast office in ...

Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) is brightening fast! Discovered in January by the Mount Lemmon Survey, it swings closest to Earth on ...

In late September, 40 amateur astronomers and photographers from all over India converged on the tiny hamlet of Hanle, in ...

I’m still stunned,” said Northwestern University Professor Joel Mokyr, hours after hearing that he won the Nobel Prize in ...

As mankind was planning the first moon landing in the 1960s, an asteroid approached Earth—and still hasn’t left.

If you're up late on Monday night (Oct. 13), or awake in the predawn hours of Tuesday (Oct. 14), look east for a striking sight. The moon, just hours past its last quarter phase, will rise above the ...

The period features lunar close approaches to Uranus and Jupiter, including the Last Quarter Moon phase. Jupiter also presents transit events of its Galilean moons, Io and Europa, accompanied by their ...

(AP) — A NASA spacecraft is ready to set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa, one of the best bets for finding life beyond Earth. Europa Clipper will peer beneath the moon’s icy crust, where an ocean ...