The American Museum of Natural History Is Hosting a Virtual Field Trip to Mars
If you're looking for a change of scenery, join the American Museum of Natural History on May 8 to explore the surface of Mars without leaving home.
If you're looking for a change of scenery, join the American Museum of Natural History on May 8 to explore the surface of Mars without leaving home.
Just because you’re not headed to the Moon doesn’t mean you can’t flaunt your passion for space exploration.
In late April, Venus is 20 times brighter than the brightest star in the night sky. Here's what you need to know about the phenomenon.
While your parents were snapping a photo of you covered in birthday cake, the Hubble was snapping one of a dust storm on Mars.
Lower light and air pollution from recent lockdown orders means April 2020's Lyrid meteor shower could be the most visible in years.
There are nearly 40,000 documents from Sally Ride’s career in the Smithsonian’s archives, and you can help make them more accessible.
The pink moon on April 7 will be the biggest and brightest supermoon of 2020. Here's how to watch the event without leaving your home.
The next full moon is 2020’s biggest and brightest supermoon (though, despite its name, it won’t be pink).
The star recently spotted 1500 light-years from Earth is shaped like a teardrop and pulsates on one side, making it a celestial anamoly.
Earth's second moon, a "mini-moon" dubbed 2020 CD3, is about the size of a small car and may have been trapped in our planet's orbit for years.
On Thursday, Venus and the moon will appear to nearly touch in the night sky after sunset. Here's what you should know about the spectacle.
Located past Pluto, the ultrared binary object Arrokoth is the farthest and oldest body ever studied up close. Data collected by NASA's New Horizons mission reveals insights about its formation and the origins of the solar system.
Take a break from your regularly scheduled stargazing to watch the moon swallow Mars on Tuesday morning.
Happy leap year! You can thank Julius Caesar and his buddies for bringing them to Europe more than 2000 years ago.
The viral images of brooms standing on their own are real, but the story that they can only balance like that on one day are false.
A solar telescope has captured the highest-resolution image of the Sun's surface ever taken, and it looks like the inside of a Cracker Jack bag.
A meteorite that landed in Australia in 1969 contains stardust that formed up to 7 billion years ago—making it older than the Earth or the sun.
TOI 700 d, an exoplanet orbiting a star 100 light-years away, is the first one discovered by NASA's TESS mission with the potential to support life.
This Friday’s full moon won’t be as striking as the blood moon of a total lunar eclipse, but it’s still worth a skyward glance.
Ringing in the new year with next weekend’s fiery sky show is worth an early-morning wake-up call.
On December 11, a full cold moon will appear at the same time as a planetary 'kiss' between Saturn and Venus. Here's how to catch the spectacle.
Scientists think Saturn's moon Titan may hold our best shot at discovering extraterrestrial life in the solar system. Recently, NASA published the first complete map of the Earth-like body.
The Alpha Monocerotid meteor shower could morph into a fleeting meteor outburst on Thursday night. Here's how you can see it.
The Leonid meteor shower is expected to peak Sunday night into Monday morning. Here's how to increase your chances of spotting a shooting star.